The Traditional Houses of Edirne Baba Demirtaş (Timurtaş) District: Its Architectural Characteristics, Potentials and Problems

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After the conquest of Edirne by the Ottomans, new districts have been established around the Kaleiçi district where settlement was heavily populated. One of the districts set up by the notables of the era is Baba Demirtaş district. This district which is within the urban conservation boundaries, is located within the vicinity of Edirne town center and Kaleiçi district and stands in the boundaries of transition and interaction zones of world heritage Selimiye Mosque Complex. With its organic structure, in addition to its location, it is important because it is an example of a settlement outside the fortress in the Ottoman period and hosts monumental historical buildings and traditional houses. In the course of time, factors such as urbanization, traffic, change of users, unconscious utilization and uncontrolled structur-ing has resulted in the deterioration of structure and decline in the number of traditional houses. Yet, in order to exhibit cultural identity, reservation of traditional structures and houses should be integrated into daily life. When exhibition and perpetuation of a world heritage such as the Selimiye Mosque Complex is considered with its surroundings, tradi-tional and historical buildings in the district become increasingly important. This study which has been conducted to call attention to the district and its existing traditional houses, reviews the architectural properties of the district and its traditional houses and determines its potentials and problems.

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Edirne , Baba Demirtaş District , traditional dwelling architecture.

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Trakya university journal of engineering sciences