Saturday 2 July 2011

Topkapi Palace Background and History-Part 7

Topkapi Palace today, it is possible to understand the environment and a very small part of the public domain as original as a museum. The time of damage, destruction (by fire) and the distribution of many of the original structure (with the new building) has come. However, based on the order of the court triple integration, the original spatial organization of the 15th century, segregation and the palaces, ceremonial houses, on the functional requirements to define and has remained fairly stable.
 
Individual needs, the social, functional group, body, class, since it is determined by modeling the system occupy, and the uniform has evolved around a small courtyard to the formation of clusters, self-attached. These poles, however, is not isolated, linked to an autonomous microcosm of the state where it is fully integrated, which is adapted to reflect the court created.

It defines the methodology of this book. Successive stages of transformation for its analytical application for reconsideration and, by showing the spatial hierarchy of the palace, past and present state of our unique world of the palace and seek to expose Felicity.