Courtyard Gardens Regulation Principles and Plant Selection in the Historical Process

Abstract

Culture, lifestyle, traditions, religious beliefs, protection, sense of privacy, climate and history play an important role in shaping the historic courtyard buildings and gardens. Courtyard gardens have been an element of these cultural activities. These spaces also create a cool environment during the hot summer seasons. Wind, has been an important factor affecting building design since ancient times. The effects of wind on buildings and reduction of energy consumption in terms of is important to demonstrate this effect through experiments. In this context, determining the location, orientation, building height, courtyard area, used materials and courtyard type of the courtyards of the buildings can create a new data for the designer and the implementer. The attention paid to the reconstructing of historical building designs in order to carry historical values into the future is the mainstay of this study. In this study the given information about the general characteristics the courtyard gardens built in different periods. In addition, within the content of the study, general information about too the preferred plant species for each period in the design of courtyard gardens is included. Thus, the reflections of past designs on modern designs of today were considered and evaluated from the point of view of landscape architecture. © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin 2021 All rights reserved.