Cumhuriyet ile birlikte Anadolu’da sanayi tesislerinin kurulması kentlerin ekonomik, toplumsal ve mekânsal yapısını değişime uğratmıştır.
Sanayi yapıları, yarattıkları iş olanakları ve barınmadan eğitime sundukları hizmetler ile kentleşme sürecini etkilemişlerdir. Bunun yanı
sıra konut çeşitliliği ile sosyal ortamın oluşumuna olanak sağlamıştır. Bu çalışmada Anadolu’da endüstriyel kalkınma hamlelerinden biri
olarak kâğıt fabrikaların kurulması ele alınmakta olup Batı Karadeniz Bölgesi’nde yer alan Çaycuma SEKA Kâğıt Fabrikası incelenmiştir.
Çalışma, Cumhuriyet Dönemi ile başlayan endüstriyel kalkınma hamlesinin devamında Devlet Planlama Teşkilatı’nın kurulması ve planlı
dönemin ilk temel sanayi tesislerinden biri olan Çaycuma Kâğıt Fabrikası’nın tarihçesi ve sosyal konut sitesinin mimari analizini yaparak
bulunduğu dönemin özelliklerini ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Çaycuma Kâğıt Fabrikası, tarımla uğraşan bölge halkına önemli ölçüde
iş imkânı sağlarken, bölgenin ekonomik, fiziksel ve sosyal yapısını da dönüştürmüştür. Fabrika, bünyesinde barındırdığı yönetici, memur
ve işçi konutlarıyla birlikte misafirhane-lokal, sinema, spor tesisleri gibi sosyal mekânları da içererek kentin değişimini ivmelendiren örnek
bir model olarak tanımlanabilir. Nitel araştırma yöntemlerinin alan çalışması ile desteklendiği bu çalışmada elde edilen fotoğraf, çizim ve
gözlemlere dayalı bulgular ile sosyal site konutlarının mekânsal ve görsel analizi yapılmış ve inşa edildikleri döneme ait mimari ve sosyal
yaşam bağlamında yeri ortaya konulmuştur. Sosyal site konutlarının plan kurgularının sadeliği ve içinde bulundukları doğal çevreyle
uyumlu olmaları, kentin geleneksel dokusundan farklılaşarak kendine özgü ve düzenli bir planlamaya sahip olması dikkati çeken nite-
liktedir. Çaycuma Kâğıt Fabrikası ve sosyal sitenin Cumhuriyet Dönemi ile başlayan sanayi yerleşke şemalarının Cumhuriyetin ilerleyen
yıllarında da devam ettirildiğini gösteren bir konumda olduğu saptanmışt
The emergence of industrial facilities in Anatolia following the establishment of the Republic in Turkey led to changes in the economic, social,
and spatial structure of the cities. Industrial buildings also had an impact on the urbanisation process due to the job opportunities they generate
and the services they offer from housing to education. In addition, industrial facilities enabled the formation of a social environment depending
on the housing diversity. In this study, the establishment of paper mills as one of the industrial development steps in Anatolia is discussed and
Çaycuma SEKA Paper Mill located in the Western Black Sea Region is examined as a case. The study aims to reveal the characteristics of the
period by analysing the history of the Çaycuma Paper Mill, which is one of the preliminary industrial facilities of the planned period with the es-
tablishment of the State Planning Organization, and the architectural analysis of the social housing estates. The problem of the study is that the
housing estate, which has preserved its original values, has not been documented. In this study, qualitative research methods were supported
by a field survey. The field survey consisted of information gathering, on-site observation, interviews with people, photographing, on-site mea-
surement, and visualisation. The study was supported by drawings and documents from the official institutional archives of the buildings in the
housing estate. Then, the spatial and visual analysis of housing estates was made with the findings. Furthermore, the significance of these hous-
ing estates was revealed in the context of the architectural and social life of the period. While Çaycuma Paper Mill provided job opportunities to
the people of the region engaged in agriculture, it also transformed the economic, physical, and social structure of the region. In the first years of
the Republic, the Garden City practices, which emerged as a means of creating a new national identity, can also be seen on the housing estate
of the factory. This site hosted the residences, which can accommodate 172 families ranging from 60 to 80 m2 sized, for officers and workers, and
also for managers and assistant managers. It can be seen as an exemplary model that accelerates the change of the city by including the social
facilities such as the guesthouse-club, cinema building, sports field, together with the residences. The housing units were planned to form a clus-
tered organisation around dead-end streets. It is noteworthy that the houses were designed in a dense green environment. Except for one of the
managers and the two assistant managers’ residences built-in 1986, all residences are planned to accommodate two-family on each floor. The
simplicity of the plans and their coherence with the natural environment presents the unique and regular planning of the site differing from the
traditional fabric of the city. There are a total of 36 residences (two of which have been demolished) in the housing estate. Although the spatial
organization is in 6 different types, the residences were built in 9 different types due to the differentiation consisting of the number of floors. The
residences were in use during the assembly of the factory and were largely completed in early 1968. Housing estates have architectural impor-
tance as they reflect the planning, construction technique, and material properties of the period in which they were built and they also have
sociological importance since they reflect the socio-economic status, lifestyle, and quality of its employees in the industrial sector. As a result, the
factory and its housing estate are an example in which the effects of the modernization process of the city of Çaycuma on the urban structure
and social life are reflected through a strong industrialisation program. Çaycuma Paper Mill has become an important industrial complex of the
period with its business and administrative buildings, residential buildings, and social service buildings. The housing estate, on the other hand,
became a modernization model for the city and was planned at the neighbourhood scale. With this feature, it is an indication that the settlement
schemes that started with the Early Republic Period were continued in the later years of the Republic. The housing estate, which is a reflection of
modern architecture on an urban scale, is capable of responding to all kinds of needs of its users with its function
