ERGONOMIC ANALYSIS OF OLD BUILDINGS WITH FOOD AND ENTERTAINMENT FUNCTIONS; EXAMPLE OF DİYARBAKİR TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS

Abstract

Diyarbakır traditional houses, which have witnessed many civilizations, are an important part of the
urban identity. Diyarbakır traditional houses have an important place in architecture in terms of
socio-cultural structure and history. Traditional houses need to be preserved and passed on to future
generations. Today, there are different protection methods. One of these methods is refunctioning.
Problems arising from new functions are observed in the preserved structures by re-functioning. It
should be taken into account that the new function should not damage the building, and that the
cultural and historical value should be preserved, and at the same time, the increasing user
requirements and comfort should be provided with the function. The study was carried out in order
to emphasize the importance of ergonomics in repurposed traditional houses and to determine
whether it meets the comfort of the user. As a result, it is expected that traditional houses will
provide ergonomic features with new functionality. In the study, ergonomic problems that arise due
to the new function in traditional houses that are functional as cafes and restaurants were examined.
For this purpose, eight traditional houses functioning as cafes and restaurants were chosen.
Afterwards, a questionnaire was applied to the users for ergonomic evaluation by taking data such
as color, lighting, noise, human dimensions, seating area calculation, window sizes of the units as
reference. With the data obtained as a result of the analysis of the observations and questionnaires,
the points to be considered in the functionalization were determined.