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Clues for Architectural Education: Flexibility in Traditional and Modern Turkish House



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Guldehan Atay and Ikbal Ece Postalci

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DOI:10.17265/2162-5263/2015.07.008

Traditional Turkish house which characterized with its original shape of the room, plan layout, construction and roof forms has two main spaces as “sofa” (common space) and the “room” differentiate it from the houses in different geographies. The flexibility of the room in traditional Turkish house is characterized with its fixed-in-furniture, which supplies all necessities of a person in a house. This paper will discuss the similarities and differences in use of space between traditional Turkish houses and today’s flats in apartments. The comprehensions will be made through the field works on traditional houses and with the projects of architecture students in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul. The concept of the students’ projects is redesigning their own houses. Since the students come from different regions of Turkey, their houses have both similar and different spatial characteristics. Whether the cultural identity of the user plays a role in use of living space will be discussed. The aim of this study is to put the relation between the past and today’s use of interior spaces of Turkish houses.

Traditional Turkish house, architectural education, interior space, flexibility