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Extended Thresholds II: The Articulated Envelope

  1. Michael Hensel,
  2. Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel

Article first published online: 27 JAN 2010

DOI: 10.1002/ad.1005

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Architectural Design

Architectural Design

Special Issue: Turkey: At the Threshold

Volume 80, Issue 1, pages 20–25, January/February 2010

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Hensel, M. and Hensel, D. S. (2010), Extended Thresholds II: The Articulated Envelope. Archit Design, 80: 20–25. doi: 10.1002/ad.1005

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  1. Issue published online: 27 JAN 2010
  2. Article first published online: 27 JAN 2010

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Keywords:

  • Yerevan Kiosk (Revan Köşkü), 1635-6;
  • variety of climates;
  • a wealth of spatial strategies;
  • climate-controlled interior;
  • Ottoman kiosk;
  • ‘offering shade’;
  • the Seljuks;
  • Topkapi Palace;
  • Fourth Courtyard (Sofa-i Hümâyûn: the Imperial Sofa);
  • the Baghdad Kiosk;
  • Hasan Aga;
  • Sultan Murat IV;
  • double-storey buildings;
  • octagonal footprint;
  • four apses;
  • diwans (rooms reserved originally for drinking and smoking);
  • carpets and textile drapings;
  • Norwegian Defence Research

Abstract

Previous to the widespread adoption of air conditioning in the 20th century, which introduced a distinct differentiation between controlled interior space and the external environment, ‘a wealth of strategies’ were developed in Turkey to moderate the transition between inside and outside. There is much to learn from these no-energy and low-energy solutions to climate control. Here, Michael Hensel and Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel describe the original research and special study they undertook of external vertical thresholds in an extended envelope when they gained special access to the 17th-century Yerevan Kiosk and Baghdad Kiosk in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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