THE RESEARCH OF SAKARYA/ HENDEK URBAN TRANSFORMATION APPLICATION WITH URBAN MORPHOLOGY APPROACH

Aim: Turkey is a country with high disaster risk and rapid urbanization increase the seismic risk in certain regions. Therefore, urban transformation projects have come to the agenda as a solution in our country in recent years. This study is a research that aims to manage the transformation process with the urban morphology approach by considering the place-context morphologically, which is generally ignored in urban transformation projects. Method: In the field study, spatial analyzes were made by comparing the morphological parameters such as street pattern, building-density relationship, use of open green space, and building island patterns before and after the intervention. Findings: As a result of the analysis, it has been seen that the street and permeable urban fabric has deteriorated, thus the stratification of private and public spaces is eliminated, with the combination of parcels and building blocks to obtain a single building block. It has been observed that the human scale has been damaged by the increasing densities, which have resulted from mass growth. Conclusion: Space is a phenomenon produced by society. We can make inferences from morphological parameters in order to understand this phenomenon and use it as data in urban transformation applications.