AN EVALUATION ON THE TURKISH HOUSE WITH EXTERIOR SOFA

摘要

The renowned Turkish architect Sedat Hakk? Eldem, who is responsible for the most comprehensive study of the Traditional Turkish House, asserts in his work entitled, Turkish House Plan Types (1954), that the element of the “sofa” is the main archetype comprising the plan of the Turkish House and creates a typology based on the “sofa”. In this, Eldem introduces 4 main types of plan; houses without sofa, with an exterior sofa, an interior sofa and a central sofa. In Eldem’s typology, the most widely encountered scheme of the Turkish House is the house with an exterior sofa layout. In its most simple form, this plan consists of two rooms or series of rooms with an open sofa situated in front. The sofa situated in this way in front of rooms appears to be an anterior sofa that opens out onto the street, garden or courtyard in the form of a roofed but open veranda with wooden posts/columns or arches. This house type is called as “the Hayat house” by another well-known Turkish Architect, Do?an Kuban (1995). It is also known as the “?ardak house” or the “Balkan house” in the Balkans.This paper will present a study and evaluation of the archetypal Turkish House, dubbed by Sedat Hakk? Eldem as “the house with exterior sofa”. Firstly presented will be the typological characteristics of the plan and then an analysis of its architectonic elements and distinct morphology followed by the sub-typologies of the plan. Some comments will additionally be given on the background of this type of plan.