The Importance Of Natural Materilas In Civilization And The Protection Of Old Historical Buildings

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 115 - 118, 01.06.2016

Riyad Şihab

Abstract

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.

Keywords

mud bricks, architecture, well building, civilization, culture

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