Architectural planning and measuring in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Çayönü, Turkey
We examined the architectural remains of the public structure known as the “Terrazzo building” in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Çayönü, in order to explore aspects of the architectural design process involved. This was achieved by identifying the spatial principles and compositional laws governi...
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Paléorient
2022
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| Zusammenfassung: | We examined the architectural remains of the public structure known as the “Terrazzo building” in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Çayönü, in order to explore aspects of the architectural design process involved. This was achieved by identifying the spatial principles and compositional laws governing the generation of the architectural form (architectural formal analysis). The results suggest a planning process which included the formulation of a small-scale schema of a floor plan, and the measuring of distances using a cubit size measurement unit of about 0.48 m. These enabled the specification of forms and their accurate construction. The analysis also indicated an early use of a basic architectural design principle, i.e., the use of a grid structure as an organisational device, establishing order and constituting an underlying framework for the formulation of design rules. We further examined two domestic structures, a contemporaneous cell-plan building and an earlier grill-plan building, and found that similar design principles and the same unit of measure (ca. 0.48 m) were applied as well. These findings suggest that a standardised unit of measure may have been used at the site throughout the PPNB. |
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