Timber and space relations in traditional Turkish houses

Life style of Turkish society which combined with customs, traditions and regional values was being a influential effect on settlement of Turkish people, house, social life, architecture and city structure. Because of socio-culturel effects and secrecy, Turkish house had separeted from outer world at the ground floor by hich massif stone walls. But at the upper floors by the promonteries with so many windows, Turkish House opens to the world outside and to the outer spaces, which can be say a part of the world outside, like green gardens and courtyards. The space winding up of Turkish Houses formed in an spesific order from inside through the outside. It winds up with the space flow as public- semi private- private. In the forming of its cover shape it appears as open- semi open- close. The distribution of the individual units that have same or similar functions have concentrated on specific centralized spaces. Other factor that participates the Turkish Houses' space winding up both at vertical and horizantal is building-construction materials. However some traditional materials like kerpiç (sun-dried bricks) and stone have used at the Turkish Houses, wood is the most used material of them all. Because of wooden structural facilities, easy to working and esthetic speciality, to be light and worm material; the wood have been took its place as the main construction material of the buildings of affluent and good quality. It appears as the only building material of the best examples of Turkish Houses' everywhere, every unit, every component and even at the wet spaces directly in contact with water. The architectural items of the houses that formed by shaping the wood material, transformed into a decorative compenet; near their functionality, by miscellaneous technics.VI The space speciality winded up of Traditional Turkish Houses from inside through the outside and participation of wood to space affluence can be seen at Kula Beyoğlu House, which is from one of the good examples of civil architecture.lt is also a good example of the reflection of Turkish traditions and life style to the houses with wood workship of decorative architectural elements. But like all the other monuments, earthquakes, fire, flood, wind, humudity, heat, sun radiation, harmful organisms and human uses threaten the future of Beyoğlu House. The space alternatives and the affluent spaces which can be perceive on the space concept and components as a part of the reflection of Turkish society's life style, traditions and cultural values that the Traditional Turkish House have should live either as house again or by giving different functions. Because it is a public liability to transfer this cultural inheritance to the future generations that has taken over from past.