Urban resilience through community-driven architecture: The case of Uzun Çarsı
M.M. Kessaf (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
R.R.J. van de Pas – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - History, Form & Aesthetics)
R.J. Nottrot – Mentor (TU Delft - Education and Student Affairs)
R.R. van den Ban – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)
John Hanna – Mentor (TU Delft - History, Form & Aesthetics)
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Abstract
This research explores how architectural interventions can foster urban resilience in post-disaster contexts, focusing on the Uzun Çarşı in Antakya after the 2023 Türkiye earthquake. Through fieldwork, discourse analysis, and ethnographic methods, the study examines how materiality, collective memory, and community agency drive recovery processes. Uzun Çarşı, despite severe destruction, demonstrated resilience through community-led spatial adaptation and the reactivation of everyday practices. The study proposes a community-driven reconstruction of a spice market, utilizing rubble as memory anchors and emphasizing participatory building processes. Rather than restoring a pre-disaster state, the design embraces transformation and continuity, highlighting resilience as an ongoing, dynamic process rooted in social, material, and spatial relations.