Vol :37 Issue No.1 2012 - Open House International

Hilal Aycı & Esin Boyacıoğlu
open house international Vol.37 No.1, March 2012 A Reading in Critical Regionalism: Analysis Of Two Houses By Han Tümertekin
Figure 1. The Village of Buyukhusun (photo by Cemal Emdem).
Figure 2. B2 House ground floor plan
(image by Mimarlar Tasarım).
Figure 3. B2 House 1st floor plan
(image by Mimarlar Tasarım).
Figure 4. B2 House Section
(image by Mimarlar Tasarım).
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pose of this study is as follows: Supporting structures
in a building are necessary elements.
Nevertheless, the expression of that building
requires something more than simply exposing
these elements. Since expression requires a coherent
relationship between parts, a certain poetic
addition is needed for this purpose. Thus the fourth
and the fifth resisting points; tectonic and poetic
can be inherently connected. Tectonics refers to that
which enables the designer to achieve harmony of
parts. Tectonics in Frampton’s sense is the poetics of
construction. When one is speaking about the poetry
of architecture, it embodies more than the physical
being of the built environment, it indicates
something that appeals to our senses, thus it is also
connected to the concepts of tactile, place and
context.
Amongst the literature on poetry,
Heidegger’s article entitled ‘Poetically Man Dwells’
explains how poetry relates to construction or the
‘art of meaning.’ Heidegger explains poetry
through its etymology: the word ‘poetry’ comes
from the Ancient Greek word ‘poiesis,’ which
means ‘to do something,’ which implies that there
is such a thing as a poetic way of making
(Heidegger, 1971: 217-228). Starting from the
point of tectonics, we can identify the poetics of
architecture. It is common for poets use words in a
way that they compose an effective result. The poetic
effect of architecture lies in the art of construction.
In this case, the poetic of critical regionalism asks if
architecture can achieve the same effect of poetry
by using its own elements such as slab, beam, column
and their construction. According to
Frampton, this kind of poetic constructing of structure
is a kind of resistance against the materializa-