Özet:

This study aims to explore the traditional wooden doors, focusing on their materials, construction, size, accessory, andornamental features in respect to Mardin houses. In this framework, the characteristic qualities of 18 courtyard doors, 10 entrancedoors and 17 indoors of 27 traditional houses in the city center of Mardin were identified through a systematic observation andthe use of an inventory form. As a result, this research finds out that most of the traditional Mardin houses now have doors in linewith modern production technologies instead of their original ones, that the remaining original doors were mostly made of walnutwood (93 %) and that all the three types of the doors possess the nailing technique in terms of their construction. There weresingle doors of 36 % and double doors of 64 %. Although wooden parts of the doors were usually in good condition, accessoriesof the courtyard doors of 77.8 %, entrance doors and interior doors of 100 % have been identified as required maintenance

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