Campus-Based Spatial Analysis of Hasanoglan High Village Institute from its Foundation to the Present

Abstract

Village Institutes have been one of the exemplary educational institutions of Turkey, which entered the modernization process with the proclamation of the Republic. The village institutes project of the period came together with the vision of the capital Ankara, and a High Village Institute was established in Hasanoglan Town in Ankara to train teachers for village institutes. Village institutes are unique institutions developed to provide the most effective and rapid development in rural areas. The institutes differ from other educational institutions in many ways; from their social impacts to their spatial organization, from the human-scaled structures on their campuses to the sophisticated education system, from the construction processes to the transformations they had over time. Hasanoglan High Village Institute (HYKE) has a remarkable place with its campus and its spatial characteristics, in addition to being one of the locomotives of the Republican enlightenment in the capital. HYKE is still being used as an educational institution and has gone through several phases where its name and scope have changed until today. This study aims to investigate the changes that HYKE has experienced in terms of spatial dimensions at the campus scale. While carrying out the research, related written and visual documents, mainly the historical ones, oral information that shed light on the history of the campus, and fieldwork are used. As a result of the transformations that the institute went through in different phases, there are changes in the campus spaces such as destruction, shrinkage, remaining idle, and shifts in functions.