INVESTIGATION AND PROTECTION RECOMMENDATIONS SINAN BRIDGES IN ISTANBUL

Authors : Serdar Kasap

Pages : 32-37

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Publication Date : 2018-03-31

Article Type : Research

Abstract :Our country is located on lands that have been home to different civilizations for centuries. For this reason, it harbors numerous movable or immovable cultural assets. Having a significant place among our immovable cultural assets, bridges are structures in which modernism and functionality are brought together by architecture and engineering disciplines by considering a sensitive balance, number of arches, arch width, arch height and construction style. Many bridges have been built across Anatolia throughout history. While a great majority of these bridges have suffered from natural disasters and human-related damages in time, today they still function. Construction techniques and current conditions of Sinan Bridges are analyzed under the light of above-stated effects. As sample structures, survey works were performed on Mimar Sinan Bridge in Buyukcekmece and Kapuagasi Bridge over Haramidere; restitution and restoration projects were tried benefiting from written and visual sources and the traces on the structures. Structural problems within the current condition of the structures were scrutinized and intervention suggestions were made. Recommendations were made to solve protection problems arising from the location of the structures.
Keywords : Survey, Restoration, Restitution, Bridge