Village rooms, which are important elements of our national culture and meet the needs of the passengers coming to the village for various reasons, constitute examples of civil architecture where the ...residents of the village gather for social and cultural purposes. In the study which is aimed to identify and promote these structures which mostly have lost their importance and function at the present time, an investigation was conducted in the towns and villages of Gediz District of Kütahya Province. The village rooms in Gediz, which are the best representations of Turkish hopitality, a total of 25 village rooms including 3 in Güzüngülü Village, 3 in Işıklar Village, 2 in Yaylaköy, 2 in Polat Village, 3 in Cebrail District, 6 in Yeğinler Village, 2 in Yağmurlar Vilage, 3 in Yeşilova Village and 1 in Aşıkpaşa Village were identified on-site. The examples are introduced with the support of the layout and the photographs taken in 2019. After evaluating the buildings according to the number of floors, the upper floor plan, which includes the room in the form of the hospitality / gathering section, was examined and the characteristic architectural and decorative features were tried to be determined. Most of the examples, which are typically dated to the 1950s and 1960s, have lost their functions and they are unfortunately left to their fate. The aim hereby is to introduce the architectural and decorative characteristics of the village chambers, which are important with their feature of being a reception and gathering space, but mostly not used today, by means of written and visual documents, and emphasize their place in the Turkish folk architecture.
In the given article he characteristics of architecture of the traditional Slavic national dwelling in the Don region , Eastern Azov region and in steppe Ciscaucasia which include architectural and ...planning, constructive and urban solutions are considered.
Village rooms are considered within the folk architecture in Anatolia. These rooms, which have an important place in village culture, are sometimes located near houses, sometimes in village squares ...and sometimes near mosques. Being one of the symbols of hospitality, the rooms are also one of the indispensable elements of social and cultural life in the countryside. The origin of the village rooms in Anatolia is based on the spatial characteristics of the core unit “room” in the Turkish House, which is based on the “dormitory type tent”. The Turks carried this tradition, which was continued in Central Asia, to Anatolia, and this tradition continued by taking into account the great care given to guests and hospitality along with the religion of Islam in verses and hadiths. Hosting guests by local residents and dignitaries has been considered as a religious service and social prestige, and it has become a competition to build rooms and entertain guests. In this study, it was determined that most of the village rooms identified in the villages of Altıntaş district were abandoned and dysfunctional. Village rooms, which symbolize hospitality, unity and solidarity, which started in Central Asia and moved to Anatolia, are the center of cultural and social life and are structures where intangible cultural heritage is embodied. The non-functioning of these structures today is a proof that we cannot claim this heritage.
This article focuses on the typology of countryside architectonical forms in the region of South-Moravia in southeastern Czechia and on the expression of village identity through architecture in case ...study villages. Original folk architecture has been altered by new types of constructions built in rural areas since the 1950s, followed by a more recent wave of new architectural forms that have developed since the 1990s. The number of architectural types in case study villages was predominantly calculated using the panoramic sceneries on mapy.cz. The coefficients of countryside identity were allocated to architectural types based on basic folk house features. The value of countryside identity is higher in smaller villages except for suburbanized settlements of the regional capital of Brno.
The paper presents the results of a complex historical and dendrochronological study of folk architecture of peasant-migrants of the first quarter of the 20th century who lived in the territory of ...the Middle Angara River region (Bratsk district of Irkutsk Oblast). Based on the dendrochronological studies, visual inspection of buildings and interviews with local residents, initial features and dynamics of adaptation changes in the building culture of the peasant-migrants were reconstructed. It has been established that the migrants tried to preserve as much as pos-sible of the building technologies from their homeland, changing only those elements that impeded the adaptation in the new environmental and climatic conditions. At the same time, a significant proportion of the peasant-migrants tried to reproduce at the new place those examples of folk architecture that in their homeland were cha-racteristic of most prosperous peasants. It has been concluded that in the Bratsk district, the building culture of the migrants underwent a higher degree of transformations than in other areas of the Angara basin region. Those mi-grants who settled in the vicinity of Russian old-settlers experienced heavy influences from their folk architecture.
Colouring of folk houses, its variations in time and sorts of pigments used has been very little explored in the region of interest so far. The paper shows the results of the investigation of twenty ...four coloured plaster and render samples from six object from two ethnographic regions of Moravia, Czech Republic. Polarizing microscopy, powder X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy were the principal analytical methods were. The results show that all the blue colours were due to ultramarine application, red one was caused by industrial by-product of iron processing and the yellow one by ochre. The deep green was due to organic synthetic pigment, whereas the lighter shades due to green earth, a natural glauconite clay in these cases. Based on the examined set of samples, no qualitative difference in the composition of pigments were found between South Eastand Central Moravia. In both the regions not only lime but also plaster or Paris or a mixture of both the material was used to produce plasters and renders in the past.
From the 1960s, the hip-roofed, cube house became the dominant type of dwelling throughout Hungary. Architects and ethnologists raised objections to the resulting “alien” appearance of settlements, ...and eventually even the authorities attempted to slow down the spread of these dwellings, with little success. In the Őrség region, with its characteristic folk architecture, the transformation was already visible by the 1970s, despite the region having some of the worst socioeconomic conditions in the country. Before the establishment of the Őrség Landscape Protection Area in 1978, the debates between the proponents of socialist modernization and those wishing to promote nature and the conservation of folk heritage were becoming increasingly heated. One such conflict was based on the difference of opinion between those wishing to preserve the architectural heritage, and the demands of local inhabitants for the modernization of their housing. In the present paper, in relation to the Őrség region, and to a lesser extent Vendvidék (Porabje), I examine how the building stock was transformed, what means were used to try to prevent the spread of the modern cube houses, what plans were put in place to preserve the traditional architectural features of the region, and with what kind of new functions attempts were made to solve the utilization of old buildings.
The goal of the construction of the Museum of Folk Architecture in Stara Lubovna was to document the material and spiritual culture of Slovaks, Spis Germans, Ruthenians, Gorals, Jews and Roma who ...lived here side by side for centuries and created cultural values of this region. The dominant feature of the exhibition is a national cultural monument - the Byzantine Rite Catholic Church of Matysova from 1833. Houses from the period (1900-1935) withfurnished interiors show the way of life, daily activities, celebrations of important annual and family holidays. Agricultural and industrial buildings showcase exhibits related to their original use. During the summer season the museum complex holds events presenting customs, traditional activities, crafts and folklore. Thanks to its location right next to the medieval Lubovna Castle and unobstructed view of the High Tatras, the exposition presents a unique site in Slovakia.
Despite the increasingly global orientation of urban morphology, there still remain countries whose achievements in the field of urban form research are underrepresented. Although the attempts to ...study settlement form in Lithuania were rather early, the second half of the 20
century was the most productive period. The article presents context, process and findings of the folk architecture research, which became the nurturing environment for the establishment of contemporary urban form studies in Lithuania.
The goal of the construction of the Museum of Folk Architecture in Stara Lubovna was to document the material and spiritual culture of Slovaks, Spis Germans, Ruthenians, Gorals, Jews and Roma who ...lived here side by side for centuries and created cultural values of this region. The dominant feature of the exhibition is a national cultural monument - the Byzantine Rite Catholic Church of Matysova from 1833. Houses from the period (1900-1935) withfurnished interiors show the way of life, daily activities, celebrations of important annual and family holidays. Agricultural and industrial buildings showcase exhibits related to their original use. During the summer season the museum complex holds events presenting customs, traditional activities, crafts and folklore. Thanks to its location right next to the medieval Lubovna Castle and unobstructed view of the High Tatras, the exposition presents a unique site in Slovakia.
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