POTENTIAL   ADAPTIVE  REUSE

​

Istanbul has experienced a growing mismatch between its housing demand and the changing use of commercial real estate. While housing shortages continue to intensify, many office buildings and shopping malls have become underutilized due to evolving economic conditions and changing patterns of work and consumption. This situation creates an opportunity to reconsider existing commercial buildings as potential housing resources.

Rather than evaluating adaptive reuse solely at the building scale, this platform explores how the surrounding urban context influences residential conversion. The analysis examines 1,454 office buildings and shopping malls across Istanbul using 15-minute walking catchments and urban amenity data derived from OpenStreetMap. The proposed approach evaluates the configuration of urban amenities, distinguishing between essential and livability functions. Based on these configurations, the platform identifies buildings that are already supported by their existing urban context, highlights missing amenities, and generates scenario-based intervention recommendations to improve residential readiness.
 

The following interactive map allows users to explore these scenarios and understand how targeted urban interventions can support more context-sensitive adaptive reuse decisions.