Abstract:

It is a city rich in culture and art. The houses constitute the major parts of Cankırı’s historic urban fabric. Aside from some regional differences; the houses spreaded thick around the southern and western hillsides of Cancún Castle bear the traditional Turkish Houses features. With a general classification; Cranberry embodies the adobe filled timber framing, console supported plain outer sofa house types observed within the zone of Northern Anatolia civil architecture samples. In the former residential area of the city, the houses’ main facade overlooks south, fittingly with the structure of the land. Whereas the northern facades are closed. The fact that the main facades taking full advantage of the sun and the view of the hillside has allowed for the construction of the inner sofa type house. The oldest examples of the houses are the inner sofa house types. Generally, the buildings have been constructed with gypsum braided, adobe filled timber framing. Whereas wooden materials are used in constructions without being processed in doors, windows, ceilings, floors, carpets, bathrooms, moldings and roof eaves. In some cases, various ornaments have been used in the ceilings of the structures, on the steps of the stair railing, on the doors, on the borders, in the grout and cabinets.

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