Production, Transformation, and Spatial Organization of Late Ottoman Provincial Municipal Buildings: The Case of the Uluborlu Municipality Mansion
BUILDINGS (BASEL), cilt.16, sa.14, ss.78-106, 2026 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 16 Sayı: 14
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.3390/buildings16142707
- Dergi Adı: BUILDINGS (BASEL)
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Applied Science & Technology Source, Natural Science Collection (ProQuest), Scopus, Materials Science & Engineering Collection (ProQuest), Technology Collection (ProQuest), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Avery, Compendex, INSPEC, Directory of Open Access Journals
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.78-106
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This study examines late Ottoman provincial municipal architecture through a multi-layered analytical framework focusing on production, transformation, and spatial integration. While municipal buildings in Ottoman imperial centers have been widely studied, their provincial counterparts remain underexplored, particularly regarding adaptive reuse processes, institutional continuity, and urban positioning. The research focuses on the Uluborlu Municipality Mansion, a structure hypothesized to have originated as a commercial building and later allocated for municipal use. The study employs a combined methodology integrating archival analysis, field survey, morphological interpretation, and comparative reading. Findings suggest that provincial municipal buildings were often shaped through allocation, adaptive reuse, and incremental transformation rather than through purpose-built construction. The Uluborlu case illustrates how successive institutional functions were accommodated within existing structures, enabling administrative continuity despite changing economic and political conditions. Furthermore, the building’s location along a principal civic axis highlights the role of municipal architecture in organizing urban morphology and materializing administrative visibility in smaller Anatolian towns. This study proposes the concept of adaptive spatial infrastructure to describe municipal buildings as evolving spatial systems capable of absorbing functional change while sustaining institutional continuity. By emphasizing allocation, transformation, and urban integration, the article contributes to broader discussions on adaptive reuse, provincial modernization, and the production of administrative space beyond capital-centered narratives.