in: The Science and Education at the Beginning of the 21st Century in Turkey, A. Drujinin, Z. Kostova, I. Sharuho, E. Atasoy, Editor, St. Kliment Ohridski University Pres, Sofia, Sofija, pp.218-229, 2013
Turks learned about
During the period of Yavuz Sultan Selim (1512-1529), many reconstruction
activities were conducted in
Evliya Çelebi, who visited
According
to the Montrose armistice agreement that was signed by the Ottoman Empire at
the end of World War I, enemy forces could invade every important places they want,
as a result,
Eskisehir Odunpazarı neighborhood, which is accepted
as archeological site, was located on an inclined land so the streets and
houses accommodated to these land conditions. Houses are generally duplex/two-floored
as on half basement floor or on a basement floor. However, there are one-floor or
three-floored houses. Although houses are generally bordered on neighbor houses
with one of front sides or two sides, there are some houses located
independently in a yard. The entrances of these buildings in this neighborhood
are generally opened to the street yet some of them were built as opening to a
yard.
The main building materials of the houses are wood and
adobe. The stone materials were used at foundation. The wall masonry was
generally built as between wood and carcase with half-timbered/logging technique
or with timber-work technique which was applied by basting lathes together. The
floors were built on basement or half-floor basement.
Overhangs were used at the houses in order to enlarge
the indoor, benefit from the scenery and sunlight, adapt to the land conditions
or to compensate the disorders in building plan. These are used with console
overhangs built with sticking out floor woods, overhangs with beamed console
carried by consoles or overhangs carried by consoles and different designs at
frontages. These frontage designs are: frontage
without overhangs; frontage at vertical position and generally two-floored.
There are sub-groups, namely without overhang but with balcony, entrance at
bay/niche and frontage with pediment-profilo.
Single overhanged frontage; the only overhang of the
building is the opposite of the entrance but at side or in the middle.
Double overhanged frontage; it is the most common
overhang group in Odunpazarı neighborhood. These are classical double overhang;
group with balcony built between double overhanged frontages, frontages with
pediment-profilo in the middle and combined overhanged frontages.
Three overhanged frontages; such type of application
was used at the big houses with longer street frontage. In Odunpazarı, there
are only two buildings with such kind of frontage.
Saw-tooth overhanged
frontages, the focus of the study; these frontages were designed according to
the width of frontage as single, double or three-overhanged.
Additionally, at the roof called as Cihannüma or
kuş kondu, which is apart from the groups mentioned above, small rooms were
built in order to benefit fresh water or scenery.