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Basically, traditional housing has shaped according to local materials and climate. As we can observe many examples surviving today, Traditional Turkish Houses caught the system that Green Buildings are trying to catch, hundreds years ago.
During their restorations, for being able to adapt today’s comfort conditions and life style, innovative material usage is inevitable as well as reintegration exercises with traditional material usage. For those reasons new material’s features are important during the integration of new materials to the traditional ones.
In this paper, the integration of innovative material to traditional material is analyzed, by looking deeply in to timber frame traditional housing examples. By considering the restoration works done till today, in new projects it is aimed to prevent the conservation of the traditional Turkish House identity, the concept of architecture being shaped according to climate, area and nature. The aim of this work is to emphasize that restoration science is not only visual; it should also supervise the vital needs.

The historical urban sites are commonly significant subjects of city planners, architects, conservators, historians, political powers and locals live in the area due to their cultural values for the society and specialists. According to the third generation human rights, every human being in the world has an impact on historical urban sites since the formation of urban site could be affected by their culture. Therefore, humans have the right to share the cultural values all over the world and any positive or negative intervention on cultural values is related with them. Urban regeneration projects are the most popular projects of İstanbul especially after the expectations that showed up during the European Capital of Culture 2010 Event. Most of the areas which are defined as squatter settlements by the municipality in Historical Peninsula have been decided to be included in an urban regeneration project. Sulukule had a special lifestyle because of the daily routines and activities of locals in Historical Peninsula. The locals of Sulukule have been able to settle a different culture in Istanbul for many years thanks to their routines: Romani culture. They created a living environment including their houses, jobs and social activities. However, Sulukule has been taken as squatter area to the records and Sulukule Urban Regeneration Project was prepared in 2005 by Fatih Municipality. A new design which is completely different from the structure of the area, aims creating a ‘better environment’ for visitors without concerning about the locals and their needs by changing the physical and social structure of the area. After the declaration of the project, the process of losing a culture and the right to live in locality has begun. This paper is about the Sulukule Urban Regeneration Project’s life span and evaluates the lost culture in terms of third generation human rights.