GAZİANTEP’TE ÖZELLİKLERİNİ YİTİREN BİR GEÇİCİ YERLEŞME ŞEKLİ: BAĞ EVLERİ
Temporary Settling with Changing Function in Gaziantep: Vineyard

Summary/Abstract: Vineyard homes are temporary country houses usually settled in the middle of vineyards together with pergola, hut, home and pool in varying parcel sizes allocated for agricultural activities. In many parts of Anatolia, vineyard homes are used for agricultural production especially during the period when grapes ripen and dried. Also in Gaziantep, as study site, vineyard homes emerged and were mainly used for agricultural activities in past years. However, especially as Gaziantep town started growing rapidly, industry went far beyond agriculture in the region, and a number of well-off people emerged in the city; the way and frequency of using and formal characteristics of vineyard homes started changing in Gaziantep. In that region, such sites were mostly used in the summer when pistachio and grape is harvested till 1990’s. But today they are not only inhabited during summer times but also visited for resting at weekends. In present study, causes and effects of changes of vineyard homes’ functions in Gaziantep are discussed, and emphasis is placed on how settlements acquire different characteristics in parallel with spatial changes occurring in their vicinity. To this end, physical structures of both old and new vineyard homes are compared, and the correlation between increase of such homes in number and the city’s population, social and economic texture is interpreted in numeric terms

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