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Title
New perspectives to save cultural heritage
Author
Altan, M. Orhan

CIPA 2003 XIX* 1 International Symposium, 30 September — 04 October, 2003, Antalya, Turkey
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the Greeks. Their daily language changed as Greek. Due to
economical, political and educational reasons, the young
population of the village left their original settlements. Today,
there is a group of Maronites who are above the middle age and
dealing with farming and herdsman ship. The Maronites living
in Koru9am consist of 70 families and nearly 150 people. The
age distribution of the Maronite community living in Koru9am
changes between 50 and 80. The young individuals come near
their families either weekends or summer holiday. By this way
the family members live separate through out the week and
come together at the weekends and in the summer months.
The Maronite inhabitants in Koru9am provide their living by
agricultural and cattle dealing. While selling the products,
growing on the yield lands, they use some portion of it for their
basic needs. By this way, they provide their profits. Carob,
wheat and olives are the main products. They obtain molasses
from carob, boiled and pounded wheat, flour and starch from
wheat and oil from olives at all of the gardens of the Maronite
houses in Koru9am. There are also ovens and areas for
vegetables in their gardens. Because of that, villagers provide
their own basic foods by themselves and prepare their bread at
the oven. They make cattle dealing and they deal with the sheep
as well. The shelter of the animals and their food storages are
located on Western planes of the village. Because of this, there
is no possibility of coinciding with any animal shelter inside the
village. In addition, hunting is done in certain periods around
the village. The villagers make their own ‘Helloumi’ cheese by
getting milk from their animals. In addition, the villagers either
provide an extra small room or a separate room inside the house
for storing their own food. Preparation of the food and on the
other hand handworks of their culture is done by the women of
the village. Also each Sunday, a religious ceremony is realized
by the villagers and the young Maronites who come to visit
their families.
TYPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
The grouping of the objects that are found randomly, in certain
rules and logic supports the basis of this analysis. Organisation
of site lay out, relation of the entrance of the house with Main
Street, house relation with neighbourhood, form and plan of the
main building units were investigated with typological analysis.
Typological analysis of organization of site lay out
The location of the house on the site was investigated. 10
different configurations were found. While the exterior frame
makes clear the border of the site, the black rectangle shows the
area of the house. The other pointed region represents the outer
space, in other words, the garden or the courtyard of the house.
Table 1.
Types of House Entrance with
Relation to Main Street
One Side
Touching
LI LI
s
1 1
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wm mm
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mm wm
ox
o
Two Sides
mm
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Touching
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wm
o
53
m mm
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V)
HHB
CL
JML Wi
Three Sides
Touching
mm
Table 1. Typological analysis of organization of site lay out
Typological analysis relationship of the house entrance with
the main street
The relationship of the house entrance with the street was
examined. In Koru9am Village housing and street connection
are two types. These are either connection with the street
directly (public space-private space connection) or street-
garden- house relation (public-semi public-private connections).
Typological analysis of house relation with neighbourhood
End of this analysis, 7 different configurations were found. The
white region shows the house and the black region shows the
attached adjacent houses. Table2.
Independent
One Side
Touching
Two Sides
Touching
Three Sides
Touching
i
j


n
a
n

Table 2. Typological analysis of house relation with
neighbourhood