Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Gazi University Journal of Science Part B: Art Humanities Design and Planning, cilt.12, sa.3, ss.361-375, 2024 (Hakemli Dergi)
Atatürk's vision, as reflected in the Republic Proclamation, aimed to integrate the movements of modernity into daily life. Great efforts were made to adapt society to the new face of the country, and these efforts were reflected in architecture. One such reflection is lodging house typology as a housing supply. The 'lodging house' model emerged with Robert Owen's principles of sustainable social life in the New Lanark settlement in the 19th century. According to him, lodgings should meet different needs, such as health, education, and recreation, which can affect workers working efficiency. In our country, lodgings were first built in the late Ottoman Empire to keep palace employees close to the palace. However, it was only with the proclamation of the Republic that the lodgings were produced as settlements. The study's main aim is to examine a series of lodgings developed in the Early Republican Turkish Era (ERTA) according to their inclusion of spaces for sustainable social life opportunities. It also tries to search for the link between the spaces that the settlements propose and the users' life satisfaction and happiness. The scope is limited to the Alpullu Sugar Factory and Nazilli Basma Factory Settlements, the lodging settlements built in the ERTA. The study's method is to analyze the mentioned lodging settlements and show that these settlements promise sustainable social life and housing, with health, education, and recreation facilities. New Lanark, Alpullu Sugar Factory, and Nazilli Basma Factory Settlements’ site plans are redrawn, compared and analyzed to show their facilities. Also, the opinions of employees and their relatives who lived on these campuses are included. In this way, an attempt was made to establish a link between the spaces suggested by the settlements and the life satisfaction and happiness of the users. In conclusion, lodgings that propose sustainable social life spaces have high user satisfaction, demonstrating these settlements' success in meeting their users' needs and expectations. Lodging settlements from the ERTA, with their unique architectural qualities and sufficient social facilities, operated like a 'happiness factory' by increasing the satisfaction level of the employees during their periods. They played an essential role in constructing and consolidating the 'Nation-State' understanding.