SOCIO-CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY AND AN ASSESSING MODEL FOR REUSE ADAPTATION

Between the sustainable design and historic preservation is a natural bond and an adaptation action to re-use has the social, cultural, economic and ecological benefits. Reuse is a superior alternative to new construction in terms of sustainability. When re-use is being analyzed with the sustainability concept, it can be said that the contribution level especially to social and cultural sustainability of the new function would be high in sustainability of function and the continuity of the building's life. In this study, have been adapted for re-use of a cultural heritage or architectural heritage, social and cultural contributions to sustainability can be put forward what has been attempted. By the means of the study the components of social and cultural sustainability is defined under two main titles such as (i) social, cultural components and (ii) components related to adaptation to the building and the new function. To evaluate these components in order to reveal the answers to the questions, re-use of buildings, social and cultural sustainability will create a data for the assessment of contributions.