Participatory Educational Research

Yazarlar: Riyad ŞİHAB

Konular:Eğitim, Bilimsel Disiplinler

Anahtar Kelimeler:Mud bricks,Architecture,Well building,Civilization,Culture

Özet: Istanbul is very rich with historical buildings which reflect the culture of very old civilization in the world. So the protection is impotent duty of each architect and engineer. This will be the important trace for our future and culture.  The end of architecture is to build well. Well building has three conditions: commodities, firmness and delight. These three conditions are timeless: commodity: the arrangement of plan unites to satisfy the social requirement; firmness: the disposition of structure to give shelter and stability; delight: the ability of combining firmness and commodity to give visual and sensual pleasure. At beginning of life on this globe the separation between human and beast was comparatively slight, and men and women lived in conditions similar to the animals. But a primitive desire for shelter soon arose caves probably formed earliest homes.  Then the use of wood was discovered together with methods of cutting it. This led to primitive tent from in which boughs were leant against each other, bound at the apex and covered with brush and moss to keep out the weather. Later a simple post and lintel system was evolved by making use of natural materials. The Egyptian with their early civilization took this post and lintel stage further by discovery of new materials – stone and, to lesser and less successful extent, mud bricks. The factor of the natural materials like stone and bricks played very   important role in to construct huge building like temples and prides which could resist all external effects and could be stood till these days. The aim of this research to declare how they could do construct these buildings without falling even exposed to earthquakes in the past.

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