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Purpose: Today, most historical buildings have lost their functions and have been restored to serve other purposes. Reconstructing structures that have lost their function not only protects the buildings, but also prolongs the service life of these buildings. Starting from the idea of re-functioning the building to make it sustainable and livable; It is aimed to reveal the relationship and harmony between the design concept and architectural principles of the buildings that were used for different functions in the past and were later transformed. Method: By taking the Cotton Factory, which was selected from the renovated historical buildings in Venice, as an example, the renovation research with the SWOT analysis method and the relationship between the mentioned old building and the new architecture were examined. The SWOT items were created to evaluate both the internal and external factors of the building as environmental, architectural and technical. Results: The function to be loaded into the structure examined by this method; In this respect, its inputs have been determined and its advantages and disadvantages have been revealed. In addition, answers were found to understand the suitability of the current state of the building for the new function to be installed. Conclusion: In this direction, in the study, which was supported by the theory and ethics of preserving architectural values, a systematic evaluation of the re-functioning proposals was made as a result of the spatial analyzes made afterwards and the selection criteria were determined based on the functional suggestions.

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