Students to Shed Light on the Past with Their Drawings in the Historical Hisar Village Built on the Ancient City of Attouda

Buldan Vocational School, Architectural Restoration Program 2nd year students, within the scope of the graduation project assignment, the project team draws up the Survey, Restitution and Restoration projects on the structures determined by the project team with common views every year. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bilge Yılmaz Kolancı and course coordinator Lecturer. Assist. Gamze Sayın, and at the end of the study, the sheets of the buildings supported by 3D and technical drawings are exhibited. The field inspection trip of the project study, which was organized for the third time this year, was organized by the course instructor Lecturer. Assist. Gamze Sayın and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bilge Yılmaz Kolancı accompanied by 2nd year students.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yılmaz Kolancı: "The studies carried out are of great importance for the transfer of our cultural heritage to future generations"

Attouda Survey Head Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bilge Yılmaz Kolancı stated that the drawings of approximately 16 buildings have been completed so far with the work supported by Sarayköy Municipality and that 8 more building projects will be prepared in the 2023-2024 academic year, and that the studies carried out are of great importance for the transfer of our cultural heritage to future generations and for future projects.

Giving information about the studies carried out in Attouda Ancient City and Hisar Village, Assoc. Prof. Dr. . Bilge Yılmaz Kolancı stated the following: "The historical Hisar Village, located in Sarayköy district of Denizli province and built on a part of the ancient city of Attouda, is a rural settlement that dates back to the Anatolian Seljuk Period and contains important examples of traditional architectural heritage from the Ottoman and Republican Periods. The settlement, which is a Grade 1 Archaeological Site, has been declared an Urban Archaeological Site together with 143 registered examples of civil/religious architecture. It is important as it is one of the 35 Urban Archaeological Protected Areas in our country. Due to many reasons such as the industrialization of the village, whose source of livelihood is weaving, and the need to constantly renew the looms used in the villages, the difficult and distant transportation to the village from the center, and the inability to renovate the houses after the site was declared a protected area, the village, which had a population of 1,500 people in approximately 300 households, started to migrate rapidly and there are approximately 10 households left today. In the settlement, which has 143 registered houses, life in the houses close to the square continues to a small extent, but the houses at the points where the slope increases and the square moves away from the square have been abandoned, structural problems have occurred in many of the registered houses due to both external factors and reasons such as disuse/neglect, and some of them have been completely demolished."