Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
5th ISUFitaly lnternational Conference: Urban Substrara & City Regeneration-Morhological Legacies and Design Tools, Rome, İtalya, 19 - 22 Şubat 2020, ss.777-786
Eskişehir has become a brand in city planning and a major destination in domestic
tourism in Turkey in the last ten years. The new role of “museums quarter” that is attributed
to the edge of Odunpazarı historic district settled on hillside has a signifcant role in this
branding process. The museums quarter separates the historic and modern parts of the
city. However, the area was once lined with landmark historic houses, facing the main
street going downward towards the city’s landmark train station. These houses, with
a traditional Eskişehir architecture, were demolished during the street widening works
in the 1980s. Neighboring the new boulevard, the rest of the demolished area stayed
underused until 2000s. In the 2000s, buildings with an architecture similar to traditional
Eskişehir architecture were constructed from scratch with modern construction materials.
These new buildings that are built to be used as museums have defned the new edge
for the historic district and they soon became a brand in domestic tourism. In 2019, the
design of this vitrine is completed with star architect Kengo Kuma’s Contemporary Art
Museum. In this context, the study will explore this reproduction process from the 1980s to
2019 through historical analysis method and will investigate the “hows” and “whys” of the
reproduction focusing on the planning and design decisions that lead to morphological
changes, and the roles of the actors in the process.