OTHER ACTIVITIES
Alternative
building materials
Mud-bricks
Traditional building materials are rapidly being replaced by what
are perceived as more convenient and modern materials. The advantages
of these indigenous materials are too often overlooked. Studies done
under the scope of a British Council Partnership Grant between Middle
East Technical University, with Françoise Summers, Nevin Gezer
and Defne Ülgüray, and the Architectural Association in
London, with Simos Yannas and Yasemin Somuncu, focused on examples
of houses in the village. METU students, Aytaç Akkan, Tugrul
Karagüzel and Semra Arslan, participated in the study, collecting
data, gathering information from the villagers and monitoring some
experimental building activities.
