Nineteenth Century Street Fountains in Ayvalık Settlement

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Fountains which meet the water needs of the people are seen sometimes an independent body as the focus of the squares as in the cases of Balıkesir and Ayvalık adjacent to the front walls and sometimes seen as an independ-ent architectural interests.Fountains being the historic venues in the tissues with which they are located have become an integral part of the whole. Fountains which micro-scale streets, squares, courtyards in terms of architecture, and macro-scale urban sky-lines of the urban spaces that enhance the formation of a focal point, also played an important role in the social ele-ment.This study aims to investigate and to document the architectural features of thirty-one samples in the historical struc-ture of Ayvalık which include the stylistic and constructive characteristics in the city square by creating the inventory of the fountains.The research method aims to classify the fountains as independent and dependent constructions after working through the documentation of Surveying and photographing them. This classification will also be examined for each fountain and if there is the changes will be investigated in every historical period from past to the present.As a result, fountain, architecture which is the water culture reflected in Ayvalık historical town structure, is ob-served as functional and visual shaping urban space, social interaction and be treated as data, as well as artisans who built fountains as people thought, nature, people and environment.Recommendation: It is thought that kneaded with the experience of life, social life, transferred to surrounding life, descriptions of life in regard to the formation of spaces of movement and urban fiction-scale architectural construc-tions and the unit in the importance and the history of civilization, fountains in Ayvalık’s historical structure should be transmitted to next generations.

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Ayvalık , Street fountains , Protection , Water culture , Historical texture

Trakya university journal of engineering sciences

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Trakya university journal of engineering sciences