Our
country is located on lands that have been home to different civilizations for
centuries. For this reason, it harbors numerous movable or immovable cultural
assets. Having a significant place among our immovable cultural assets, bridges
are structures in which modernism and functionality are brought together by
architecture and engineering disciplines by considering a sensitive balance, number of arches, arch width, arch height and construction style. Many bridges
have been built across Anatolia throughout history. While a great majority of
these bridges have suffered from natural
disasters and human-related damages in time, today they still function.
Construction
techniques and current conditions of Sinan Bridges are analyzed under the light
of above-stated effects. As sample structures, survey works were performed on
Mimar Sinan Bridge in Buyukcekmece and Kapuagasi Bridge over Haramidere;
restitution and restoration projects were tried benefiting from written and
visual sources and the traces on the
structures. Structural problems within the current condition of the structures
were scrutinized and intervention suggestions
were made. Recommendations were made to solve protection problems
arising from the location of the structures.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Engineering |
Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | March 31, 2018 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 Volume: 2 Issue: 1 |