Sustainability of Constructions. Suleyman's Mosque, Istanbul

Abstract

In the Turkish Architectural History, Mimar Sinan has the most important place to define the landmarks. The Mosques, the bridges, the kulliyes(with a mosque in the heart of the kulliye as an extensive assembly of religious schools and buildings housing social functions), etc. of Mimar Sinan are coining today along a more than 400years period. The compositon of the full dome and semi domes is very important for the rich space value under. The additional structural elements for controlling the praying sound to God prepare a fully solved situation in the meaning of acoustical control. In the paper, after the definition of the complex in the meaning of history and in the meaning of space compositions, its structural system in the context of building materials and constructional details, the reasons of its acoustical performance and the degree of the efficiency of the daylight use will be explained

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