The Textbook of Architecture

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The Ottoman timber house

A masonry ground storey, timber upper storeys jettied over the street in çıkma bays on brackets, wide eaves.

The Ottoman timber house Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Ottoman

The rules it illustrates

Timber over masonry, jettied bays over the street. Build the house with a masonry ground storey and timber-framed upper storeys, and jetty the upper rooms out over the street in bays (çıkma) on brackets, squaring them over the irregular plot and turning their many windows to light, air and view.