3.1.3 Çukur Khan

It was constructed in the sixteenth century with rubble stone foundation walls. Above the rubble stone foundation are wooden pillars and trusses with mud-brick infill. The two-story building has a wooden hipped roof. The building is located in Atpazarı, next to Çengel Khan. It has an open courtyard plan type, surrounded by semi-open riwaqs, and the rooms behind. Entrance to the building is provided on the north side [28]. It lost its historic character and character defining features to a great extent during its repair works in 1950s [26]. Hence, it was in a ruined condition before its last restoration which was completed in 2010. During the last adaptations, the building was converted to a boutique hotel with all the rooms having a different concept. Hence, it still retains its original accommodation use, and with the renovated shops on the north façade, it continues to provide public access/use and preserves its streetscape character. During its restoration in 2007–2010, its open courtyard was covered with a rooftop, and thus the space below could serve as a bar restaurant (Figures 12 and 13). This rooftop addition exhibits a contrasting approach in terms of material (glass and steel) selection and construction technique, so can easily be distinguishable from the original. The entire storefronts on the north facade, that were too deteriorated to repair or were not existent, were replaced with wood and glass material, by using the physical evidence as a model as suggested in The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings (Figure 12) [4]. Both the new rooftop and storefront additions are compatible with the size, scale, and massing of the historic

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Figure 12. Çukur khan: Rooftop addition (a and b) and storefronts (c) [39, 57].

Figure 13.

Ground floor plan drawing of Çukur khan with new additions shown in different colors (source: Rearranged from [56]).

building. New interior additions include alterations and adaptations in wet spaces and mechanical installations.
