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9th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2006, WCTE 2006, Portland, OR, United States Of America, 6 - 10 August 2006, vol.2, pp.1604-1611
Timber frame building systems have frequently been used in traditional Turkish architecture. According to the research on Turkish houses, timber frame construction has developed in the seventeenth century and been continuously used afterwards. Starting with 1940s, modern technology has taken the upper hand in the construction industry of Turkey. Thanks to the development of transportation facilities and more widely available modern materials all around the country, like cement and industrial bricks, the construction of timber frame buildings have considerably declined. The changes in modern ways of building has resulted in the loss of knowledge about the tradition of timber building. The timber engineering is also not much strong in Turkey. In order to improve and encourage timber building construction, there has been a study to find out timber frame modular model houses that are congruent with the conditions in Turkey.