Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Industrial Archaeology Review, 2026 (AHCI, Scopus)
This article examines the Belemedik Middle Construction Site, established in 1905 along the Berlin–Baghdad Railway corridor as a temporary yet systematically organised railway construction settlement in mountainous southern Türkiye. Interpreting the site as a dispersed socio-technical industrial heritage, the study draws on archival research, architectural survey and oral history to analyse its spatial organisation, hybrid construction techniques and topographic adaptations that illustrate pragmatic engineering responses to environmental and logistical constraints. Evaluated through industrial heritage value frameworks, the site’s significance is shown to lie not only in individual buildings but in the legibility of construction processes embedded within the landscape. Comparative discussion situates Belemedik between planned company towns and field-adapted navvy camps. The article further addresses conservation challenges arising from fragmented governance and proposes a reversible, low-impact adaptive reuse model to sustain material authenticity and landscape integrity within this dispersed industrial settlement.