Temelli (Samutlu) Model Village
Early Republic’s settlement policies of 1920s aimed and built villages along rivers and other natural sources and that were easy to reach. The "Model Villages" built for the exchanged population usually had grid plans and hosted 50 houses, by means of which the size and order of those settlement units were kept under control. "Temelli (Samutlu) Model Village", built for exchangees from Bulgaria with a law dated 1 July 1931, is an interesting and first example of the circular planned "Ideal Villages of Republic", designed by General Kazım Dirik later in 1940s.
The exhibition is based on the research project run by Ali Cengizkan and Didem Kılıçkıran carried out at the MArch studios of the METU Faculty of Architecture in the scope of Arch 713. The research focuses on the socio-cultural, architectural and historical development of the settlement unit and is based on archive scanning, on site building studies, oral history and ethnographic methods. The research and the exhibition has already given way to initiating a local museum in Temelli Model Village.
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Model Villages and Temelli Model Village
The "Model Villages" built at the time of the Exchange of Populations generally consisted of a grid plan with a central village square, school, mosque, gendarmerie and guest house, and parallel streets with houses set in gardens. The villages were built with a total number of 50 housing units to keep a check on the ...
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Stone House
Samutlu Model Village, the core of today’s Temelli, had a semi-circular settlement plan, oriented towards north, with 26 housing units on two rows of arced streets. Temelli’s original “stone houses” are located apart from each other. They are one-storied buildings with gardens, walls surround their courtyards and t...
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The Trend of Building Apartment Blocks...
The active involvement of Ankara, the metropolitan city Temelli comes under, accelerated the production of the residential project, and an influx of people from outside the town was observed, which led to rapid building of apartment blocks in and around the town. The pressure of this transformation also began to hav...
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Identity and Feeling of Belonging
"That house is destroyed. It is hard to see it disappear... when those houses were destroyed, I felt like my parents were destroyed again... Then they put up an apartment building there."
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Conservation
Temelli has an important representative place in the social policies of the War of Liberation and the "Founding of the Republic" era. The acceleration of Temelli model village’s transformation from a rural area to an urban area when it took the first step towards becoming a municipality in 2005 constitutes a threat ...
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