A METHOD PROPOSAL FOR SURVEYING THE CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES OF TRADITIONAL HOUSES

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2024-01-01

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Diri Akyıldız, Filiz
Şahin Güçhan, Neriman

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Traditional houses have been built in line with opportunities and limits of easily available materials and developed against earthquakes, floods, fires, and the corrosive effects of external factors. In traditional houses located in Turkey, most of which were constructed during the late-Ottoman period, various typologies specific to different regions were formed. Traditional construction techniques are one of the most important character-defining features of them, and knowledge about these techniques is essential to their protection and sustainability. While this knowledge has about to be forgotten with the widespread use of modern building materials, even in rural settlements of Turkey, the most reliable source for this information is the buildings themselves. However, in both academic research and conservation practices, they are recorded only by documenting general architectural features without gathering adequate information about construction techniques. In all works on different scales, knowledge of traditional construction technology should be collected systematically using a common language. Only in this way can all the research and practices feed each other, and this experience is guaranteed not to be lost. For this aim, an economically sustainable method has been developed to survey construction techniques used in traditional houses. This method includes recording the construction details from the foundation to the upper structure, in accordance with the construction process, at every point where the system section changes, using a simple code system. In addition, a general assessment, including common structural problems and authentic construction errors, is part of this method. This data is enhanced through interviews with local users and builders, if feasible, to determine the quarries and sources of building materials, and acquire knowledge of construction tools and local construction terminology. By storing this type of information, gathered from various regions with a common language, building up a national-scale geospatial database is suggested. In this paper, the practice of the aforementioned method on traditional Ottoman hımış houses, which is the most common construction type used in the traditional housing stock in Turkey, is presented.

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Building surveying, Hımış, Traditional construction technique, Traditional house

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111210

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