Çise Tunççağ; “The family of our First President Rauf Raif Denktaş, decided to renovate the building into a university called Rauf Denktaş University, which is very meaningful for our society. Being a part of this valuable project, I feel very lucky and proud and also to have the opportunity to renovate this kind of historical significant building.

I did my interior layout plan accordingly in order to regain the historic building’s original character. I restorated all the windows respectfully, with its original scales, materials, and squared designs as steel and glass.  And also I aimed to present both the construction methods and materials of the stone walls, to combine my interior design and renovation project each other. We take the plasters of the stone walls off carefully and tidily and we mortar the stones carefully with hydraulic limestone dust sea sand and also we polished the stones with a special transparent mat stone polish, which is always my first priority for historic renovation projects.

As the building is already an architectural heritage that we are responsible to conserve for the next generations, the renovations that I do today will also be architectural and cultural heritages for the generations of 50 years later. So I believe that a visitor can conceive and differentiate, when the building was originally constructed and when it was renovated, which makes the building itself an exhibition in my point of view.”