Brief History

Safranbolu is a big town of Amasya city. Safranbolu Houses are the most important building blocks of Turkish urban culture that continue to live today. In the town center. with the. There are about 2000 traditional Turkish houses built in the 18th and 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

We can start the tactile depiction of the traditional Safranbolu house from the ground floor. The indented texture you feel when you touch the walls of the ground floor represents the stone walls of the house. The house has two entrances: The wooden texture of the door where people enter the house is shown with vertical lines. Above the door, there are 3 triangular glasses that provide lighting in connection with the door and with each other. Continuing by touching to the left from the front of the house where the door is located and turning the corner of the house, you will reach a larger wooden double-winged door. This door is the barn door of the house.

As we move from the stone walls of the ground floor to the first floor, the horizontally placed strips that you can trace with your finger represent the wooden frame used in the construction of the house. This timber frame framing the house also continues vertically from the corners of the house to the roof.

There are 4 vertical rectangular windows on each facade of the first floor. There are trellis on the windows that allow the outside of the house to be seen, but prevent the inside of the house from being seen from the outside. You can touch the horizontal and vertical stripes that represent these trellis.

As you continue upwards, you can touch the wooden pillars (supports) that support the bay window structure of the second floor of the house. On the second floor, there are four bay windows, one at each corner, and four pillars supporting each bay window, two on one side and two on the other. When you go up to the second floor by following any corner of the first floor of the house, you can touch the two pillars on the right and left of the corner.

On the second floor of the house, there are 6 vertical rectangular windows, two on the left side bay window, two on the middle and two on the right side bay window. The windows have common features with the windows on the first floor.

The second floor is flatter than the other floors. Daily life takes place in the middle floor. It is easier to heat this floor on cold winter days.

The roof above the second floor converges in the middle, forming a triangle rising towards the middle on each façade. The roof is paved with half-cylindrical tiles. There is also a rectangular prism-shaped chimney on the roof.