Feyyaz Berber

A lodging for Karaköy
Karaköy is a „clearance“. Less is continuous. Passengers passing through the quarter, customers come into the area around the small shops to make their shopping. Shop owners do like to retire to their homes after work, relating to to the time outside school and university hours. The area should be supplemented by another transit area. To the travelling, setting up, working and providing activities another basic need is added. A hostel accommodation and resting place for all the travelers, traders and teachers who stay for a long or short period of time. The existing and functioning system should remain and be continued here. Small shops, a square, and a lane, blend the lodging house harmoniously with the existing local environment and strengthen the traditional infrastructure. The lodging house can be seen as an enclave within the district, perhaps even within the plot. The historical example of the han combines the functionality of trade and the consideration about bivouacs. This becomes the central starting point for this design.

Typology han
1883 Istanbul was opened up by the rails of the Orient Express. This turned Istanbul into a tourist destination for many Europeans. Thus the first hotels were built in the late 19th century. This typology was imported and adopted by the Turkish. The now extinct han typology emerged from the Turkish culture. In this respect, I wish to return to the issue and recover this typology in my diploma thesis. The first hans or caravanserai emerged on trade routes, at distances of about forty kilometers. The appearance had a defensive character. If needed hans can be assigned to one or more functions. Mostly, these are cell-like layouts that are strung together around a courtyard. After the conquest of Constantinople by Fatih Sultan Mehmed, they began to build urban hans. These do not differ from the original types. They have been adapted, so as to fulfil the requirements of complex urban contexts. The defensive character was casted off, the delimitation of urban space has been weakened by the inclusion of two-sided functions. Every han has a specialization on certain product categories.

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