Saturday, 2 July 2011

Topkapi Palace Background and History-Part 5


Although originally intended the residence of the Ottoman Empire, the palace is the transformation and development of new space in Harlem that despite a "palace women" as important, Eski Saray in Istanbul. This palace is the residence of the Sultan of close relatives (mother, wife and children), first served as the residence of the plural form of all the monarchs, after folk women died. It serves as a model for outdoor and formal of the new palace harem in this way.

In the position of Chief Planner of the capital of his, Mehmed II, the organizational philosophy of their own organizations related to each other, order and ritual (ethics, morals, and ultimately will include a traditional ceremony was) and all agencies to provide such integrated structure, the physical environment of the capital located in the specified area.

Kanu name of Mehmed II (literally "Book of the Law") is a world of his future empire in principle - "Third Rome" are made that the circuit diagram. However, all parameters are described in detail that seems be something done to be placed in the context of cities and affairs of the organization, for the Sultan is not clearly known, the functions can be performed on the basis of a known duality assumptions waves.

He was chosen as the place where his palace was originally the city thoroughly, and later (at the time) chose to move to separate the relatively remote and isolated. His motive in this, can not be precisely identified. It is a separate domain for the new palace for ceremonial or administrative functions of the public or private property as a residence (or internal) to examine or predict the main features?

Another problem, related, and unresolved are designed to meet the most advanced concepts of military architecture of the day, construction Yedikule, why now only used as a granary of the empire. How do you see it for what purpose the original structure? Contrary to build his field of contemporary Kulliye Fatih (multifunctional) with a clear purpose and objective to be in, are commonly prescribed: the civil service will be provided by the state are in school classes, the technical contribution must be trained.

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