Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
2023 World Wood Day Online Symposium & The Fifth IUFRO Forest Products Culture Colloquium, 21 - 22 Mart 2023, ss.20, (Özet Bildiri)
Büyükada Orphanage (also known as Prinkipo Palace or Büyükada Greek Orphanage) was designed and built in 1898 as a hotel building on one of the nine Islands in the Sea of Marmara (Istanbul, Turkey). When the per-mission to use it as a hotel could not issue, it was purchased by a benefac-tor and converted into an orphanage with necessary additions. The or-phanage was opened as a subordinate of the Greek Patriarchate in 1903 until closed in 1964. The importance of the building is associated with be-ing considered the largest wooden building in Europe with 50.000 m3 vol-ume constitutes and the second largest in the world at the time of its con-struction. In order to illuminate the past and the future, identification of the wood samples used in various parts of the building was determined by microscopic methods. As a result of the examination of the samples taken from eight different areas, it was determined that two of the samples be-longed to spruce, three to fir, and one for each sample to hard pine, oak and cedar trees. As a result of this study with wood identification, the pref-erences of this magnificent structure and indirectly the wooden-based structures of Istanbul’s late 19th century were clarified and a basis for fur-ther research was formed.