Design within the Historic Environment: A Survey on Admiration Preferences

Today, the new designs applied within historic environments are realized with approaches that vary between two extremes. A permanent doctrine related to such examples, which are sometimes criticised positively and sometimes negatively in terms of their effects on the existing texture, has not yet been put forth.This paper is on the works created with similar and/or opposite approaches for new incompatible-looking buildings within the historical environment and the admiration preferences of these works. The potential designs formed on a street of Safranbolu, which is a world heritage site, have been evaluated by the students who attend the elective course named ‘New Buildings in Historical Environments-Studio’ given at the Department of Architecture in the Karabük University. This rehabilitation work aiming at conservation-development, which is rebuilt based on current allowed building heights, is aiming to search for means of solution on behalf of compatibility of old and new.