Typical Buildings of Saraçoğlu Street (Paul Bonatz)

Saraçoğlu Street was designed around 1940. This area was designed for residence of top level bureaucrats and soldiers. The first mass housing at republic time is this building. The most significant features of typical buildings of Saraçoğlu Street are listed below.
-Low storey.
-Perfectly regular streets between houses.
-Each house contains its own courtyard and any of courtyards do not see street which have traffic. This feature proofs that the reference point of arrangement of Saraçoğlu Street is Anatolian dwelling architecture.
-Courtyards are really wide and green so neighbor of the building never can see other buildings.
-Campus of Saraçoğlu district reflect high comfort standard for its establishment term.
Because of the logic of mass housing Saraçoğlu Street contain 435 neighborhoods unit, schools, and buildings for social purpose, shops and playgrounds.
-Buildings have the features of second National Architecture Style. At exterior facade, oriels and fringes which are the significant items of Traditional Turkish Architecture are seen.
-At interiors of buildings have interesting components. First of all ceiling height of buildings is 3.20cm.The windows which are at busy side are double glass. At other side of Windows are single. Buildings are perfectly durable to earthquake. In addition when erecting this building pipes which constitute infrastructure of the constitution are lay down with their extras, in case of necessity, the dweller can change them with new one.
Finally Saraçoğlu Street was recorded as urban protected area.