Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
2nd International Architectural Sciences and Application Symposium 'ARCSAS 2022', Baku, Azerbaycan, 9 - 11 Eylül 2022, ss.295-311
Built between 1898 and 1899 by the French company Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grand Express Européens (International Sleeping Wagons and the Great European Express Enterprise) as a hotel on Büyükada İsa (Hristo) Hill, the building was moved to the Balıklı Greek Orphanage in Yedikule in 1902 and started to serve as an orphanage building. The architect of the hotel, named 'Prinkipo Palas', inspired by the 'Prince Island', which is the first name of Büyükada, is Alexandre Vallaury of French origin. The building, which served as an orphanage from 1902 to 1960, has been standing empty (dysfunctional) for approximately 58 years. The building, which was used as a shelter for Greek orphans when the orphanage function was active, is also known as the "Red Palace" as well as being the largest wooden building in the Europe. It also served at Kuleli Military High School during the First World War. The building, which contains information about the cultural and architectural identity of the period in which it was built, still sees the quality of a resource today. For this reason, it is necessary to carry out all the necessary studies to document the material, construction techniques, historical construction processes of the building, especially the structural system, and to transfer it to future generations by preserving it. The transformation of the orphanage, which was a home for orphaned Greek children in Istanbul, from its first construction in 1898 (with hotel function) to the present day, in its function and architectural space, has been discussed with pre-restoration and post-restoration studies in different periods, and a critique of the present state of the building has been presented. The proposal to re-function as an effective way of keeping this building, which was left to disappear without a function, was put forward within the scope of the study. In the study, qualitative data analysis method was used, which includes analysis of the building as a result of on-site observation in addition to scanning the national and international literature, old and new news, interviews, travel writings and notes about the building. As a result of the data obtained, the refunctioning proposal of the region and the building was presented as a study output. This analysis process and the outcome will contribute to the historical classification of the orphanage's transformation process, reveal the criticism and function proposal brought to the current state of the building, and form a basis for further studies on the subject.
Keywords: Büyükada Greek Orphanage, Prinkipo Palace, architectural transformation, refunctioning