(Ebook) An Industrial Heritage Case Study in Ayvalık: Ertem Olive Oil Factory by PhD candidate. GOZDE YILDIZ , Dr. NERIMAN SAHIN GUCHAN

(Ebook) An Industrial Heritage Case Study in Ayvalık: Ertem Olive Oil Factory by PhD candidate. GOZDE YILDIZ , Dr. NERIMAN SAHIN GUCHAN

Ayvalık is a pioneer settlement in the West Anatolia with an olive-based
industry since its establishment. However, due to fast technological
developments and changes in production systems, there is a large stock of
derelict industrial buildings within the city center. In addition, few of them are
restored under poor conditions as a result of financial profits. This situation
puts Ayvalık’s olive industrial heritage which constitutes the identity of the
town at critical risk of extinction. Ertem Olive Oil Factory is one of the
industrial heritage buildings in Ayvalık dating back to 1910 which is a typical
well preserved-medium scale 19th-century olive oil factory including both
olive oil and soap productions. The aim of this paper is to discuss a
conservation approach for the industrial settlement of Ayvalık by assessing the
factory and its close environment through values, problems and potentials.
The paper thus begins with brief history of Ayvalık and the effects of
industrialization on the city. It continues with theoretical principles of
adaptive re-use through contemporary literature and general evaluation of
adaptive re-use examples in Ayvalık according to these principles. The third
part focuses on the general characteristics of Ertem Olive Oil Factory and its
close environment. The final part discusses the conservation approach for the
adaptive re-use through values, problems and potentials of the building and
Ayvalık.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2018), 2(3), 20-30.
https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.4715