Geleneksel Kır Meskenlerinde Mimari Degradasyon: Sinop İli Örneği

Abstract

Rapid change in each field in today’s world has also influenced rural settlements in Turkey and traditional rural dwellings have been faced with a rapidly developing architectural degradation. In this study,  the change in traditional wooden houses in Sinop region was discussed and it is emphasized the reasons why these houses are quickly removed from their origins which have all the features of the geographical environment, and issues affecting them. Most of the villages in the Sinop region are made up of wooden country houses constructed by taking advantage of the rich forest cover around the periphery. In the region where rural settlements are being abandoned due to economic backwardness, many rural houses are faced with the danger of extinction by leaving to their fate while there is a different threat for the houses still used. In this case, both the economic difficulties of building a new house and the cost of timber, and the fact that it is no longer available in natural surroundings force local people had wooden houses usable in an easy and cheap as possible way. In this process; they started to place the stone cover in the roofs of the houses with tiles and sheet metal, and in the houses of the houses with wooden materials like brick / briquettes. As a consequence, traditional residences in the region quickly leave their place nor traditional neither modern residences where natural and contemporary building materials co-exist.