Dr. Behçet Uz Çocuk Hospital is a hospital in

İzmir İzmir is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of İzmir Province. In 2024, the city of İzmir had ...

, Turkey. The hospital was built in April 1947, after a fire burned İzmir when the Turkish military troops visited. The building is the built in the Modernist style of architecture as it was part of the

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and

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project in the 1920s. It was designed and built by Zeki Sayar and continues to function as a

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. The structure is well-preserved and has not changed significantly since its creation. Hikmet Gökmen restored the building and reorganized and updated the surrounding environment to fit modern needs.

Location

The building is located on Cumhuriyet Square with a planted garden by the partition border walls. Due to the destruction of

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, İzmir lost many architectural buildings. And while the city was rebuilt many public and governmental structures were built around the hospital. The area around the hospital was built with wide boulevards.

Architecture

The hospital is built out of 4 story blocks which join together in a rectangular leaving an atrium in the center. The 19th-century architectural approach aimed to utilize sunlight. The same rectangular geometric form repeats itself in openings on the exterior facade following modern aspects in architecture. Up until the 1920s Turkish architecture used traditional features as a way of being more nationalist, but transitioned to more modern architectural styles in the 30s. This hospital and the Gazi Primary School are good examples of the modern architectural style. Another difference from other hospitals is a rectangular oriented block and their corridors have rooms both sides. İt is also possible to observe these types of corridors in Gazi School in

Alsancak Alsancak is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Konak, İzmir, Konak, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 5,581 (2022). It is part of the historic center of the city of İzmir. Overview As a notional zone, Alsancak extends ...

. The school was also part of that modern aspect of architecture. The hospital is an example of the use of supporting walls in construction. As a result of the supporting walls, it has large regular rectangular windows that allow for much natural light and need little

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. However, the corridors still need artificial lighting. The roof structure is red tile patterned with an angle and similar characteristics to the surrounding public buildings to catch the harmony of them. The building is painted pink. The color decision is more relevant to the function of the structure instead of the design or composition.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dr. Behcet Uz Cocuk Hastanesi 1947 establishments in Turkey Hospitals in İzmir Children's hospitals Konak District Hospitals established in 1947