Traditional Houses Of Bitlis: Conservation Issues And Suggestions

Bitlis province is located in south east Anatolia and settled on a high terrain, with in this topography, images of the traditional urban houses and monumental building semblances a rich profile from different vistas. XX. In the first quarter of the century, when it was a settlement where the Armenians and Muslims live together,because of internal and external migrations after the second half of the century the social structure of the residents of the city that has changed is observed. The 1960s in the aftermath of migration to the big cities for economic reasons, which is, after 1980 because of the terror that occurs in the area continued. Bitlis traditional urban fabric, due to this migration, the user was forced to live the changes. The number of traditional housing to be a lot of the city's original urban fabric while maintaining the physical context of the present day, to reach a comprehensive study of the user of the change have been made about the traditional houses in Bitlis province suregelmes and tissue for Evaluation and analysis of traditional housing in the scientific sense was born out of necessity. As a result of the analysis from the traditional urban tissue of the social and physical problems have been mentioned. As a result, the change in the social structure by determining what are the effects on the domestic architecture of traditional traditional traditional homes and the protection of the urban fabric in the direction of solution of their problems and made suggestions.