Construction Techniques of 13th-Century Monastic Buildings in Ani (Kars-Turkey)

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2024-7-11

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Jodeırıerajaıe Pouyafard, Maryam

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Knowledge of construction techniques is fundamental for correct implementations in heritage conservation, providing crucial insights into historical building techniques and materials. Therefore, gaining more information about specific building techniques in different geographies and centuries is vital to creating a base for various conservation disciplines to acquire a deeper understanding of architectural and constructional techniques, ensuring the controlled and efficient implementation and long-term safeguarding of these treasures for future generations. Ani, an archaeological site with a diverse historical background, presents a unique case for studying architectural and construction techniques influenced by various cultural and religious groups. Accordingly, this thesis explores and correlates historical and architectural information on three 13th-century monastic structures in Ani, extracting their construction techniques' mutual and unique aspects from a conservation perspective. While doing so, this study offers insights into the history of preservation in Ani and the architectural history of three Monastic churches and surrounding chapels while gathering dimensional and material information and decomposing each element at the buildings, their relation and connection to other components, and the logic of building master’s construction techniques followed by analysis of construction composition and implementation phases from foundation to roof. Finally, it evaluates the entire process that intends to help preservation decisions and conservation practices.

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Archeological Site of Ani, Construction Techniques, Conservation, Medieval Armenian Architecture, Architecture of 13th Century

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis