Influences of different ages and cultures on each other from architectural point of view: Examination of historical buildings in Trabzon/Turkiye

The metamorphosis of a historical city: From the Byzantine city Argyropolis to the Ottoman neighborhood Süleymaniye

“…carrying out a pre-investigation in order to choose the central area that is actively used today and that contains example buildings reflecting different periods, Table 1 The characteristics of Byzantine and Ottoman period architectures [13] Byzantine period Ottoman period Buildings usually have 2 or 3 stories Buildings usually have 2 or 3 stories Block stone wall system were used While block stone wall system were used in public buildings, lath and plaster wall system or a composite system (block stones in load bearing parts and lath and plaster in the inside) was used in wood-carcassed Drinking fountains are one of the street elements and they are known to be very common in the area in the past. One such drinking fountain which has come down to the present day and which is known as the fountain of the police chef was also investigated in this study.…”

The elements of forming traditional Turkish cities: Examination of houses and streets in historical city of Erzurum

“…In Anatolian Turkish architecture, outer door opens to the courtyard if there is one, it opens to the house directly if there are not [21]. While entrance is on the right or left side of the building if it is under the bay window, it is in the middle and opens to the courtyard of the house without a bay window [22]. Generally rectangular windows are used and there are square windows.…”

Deep generative modeling tasks: Automatic generation of building facades with Pix2Pix GAN for Hong Kong city expansion and renovation

“…The facade, as an important part of architectural style, expresses aesthetics found in the old district renovation, considers optimized facade function and performance. In generalizing comprehensive information on building facades, it has been found that facade elements of buildings can be classified (Sagˇsöz, Tuluk, and Özgen, 2006). In the past, the categorization and redesign of facades was usually labor intensive, and the composition of individual building components and their share, as well as the architectural styles and information of buildings developed and constructed in different periods, were difficult for architects to distill and led to rather subjective results.…”