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Abstract
Cultural heritage is the set of monuments and values inherited from past generations, including tangible, intangible and natural heritage. Raising awareness in the fields of culture, history and conservation is crucial in transferring cultural heritage to future generations. Reuse is one of the ways to preserve and maintain architectural structures regarding cultural heritage. Consequently, preserved heritage becomes an important value that also provides economic contribution to local communities through tourism. The Yavuz Selim Primary School building stands as one of Trabzon city’s tangible cultural heritage treasures, deeply etched in the memories of many. The School opened as a boarding school for nuns by French Catholics in 1903-1904. Over time, it served various functions including a military hospital and a hazelnut factory. Renamed “New School,” it resumed educational activities in 1935, eventually adopting its current name, Yavuz Selim Primary School, in 1964. The aim of this study is to reveal the cultural heritage significance of the school, raise awareness about the historical building, read the process of change that the building has undergone from past to present, and recommend its re-using as a museum. In this study, the case study method was used. The material of the study consists of literature sources, yearbooks, building surveys, restoration and restitution reports. As a result, the school was evaluated as a cultural heritage that transmits the educational history of Trabzon to the future, and thus it was revealed that it would be appropriate to preserve the building as a “museum of the history of education”.
Bahar Küçük Karakaş is a lecturer at Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architecture. She completed her master’s and doctorate degrees at Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architectural History. Her doctoral thesis examines the technical agricultural and horticultural schools in Turkiye from a spatial and political perspective. Her studies focus on politics and space relations and spatial and theoretical readings through concepts in the context of late Ottoman and republican architecture. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3894-5160
Zeynep Sadiklar is currently a lecturer in the Design Department of Arsin Vocational School, Karadeniz Technical University. Sadiklar received her BArch in Interior Architecture from Karadeniz Technical University. After completing her BArch, she pursued her MA in Interior Architecture, followed by a PhD in Architecture. Her doctoral research focuses on the concept of plasticity in architecture, examining the meaning of spatial plasticity in interior spaces and its changes throughout architectural history. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6621-2039