Formation of entrance doors in traditional wooden buildings in the city center of Tekirdağ

Abstract

The fundamental building material of traditional Tekirdag houses is wood. Although the exact building dates are not documented, the remaining wooden carcass structures are mostly from the 19^th and 20^th centuries. Today, wooden houses are most intensely located in the city center, Pestemalci Street, Iskele Street, Mayadaglı Street, Cehennemdere Street, Sogukkuyu Street, Tintinpinar Street, and its surroundings. In the countryside, it is concentrated in Gazikoy, Guzelkoy, and Ucmakdere. The entrance doors of houses located in the center are retracted by a niche and decorated with varying motifs. The main doors and room doors are simpler in the countryside. The most modified or missing building components are doors in these buildings, which are worn out for different purposes and their number is diminishing day by day. The purpose of this research is to contribute to the inventory studies of wooden structures and building elements that we lose day by day. For this purpose, wooden doors in Tekirdag civil architecture examples were examined in terms of material, design, and construction. Wooden doors belonging to 33 buildings, that are each registered, chosen from central district where wooden structures are clustered, were examined, their building surveys were taken and detailed drawings were rendered.