Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Ankara International Congress on Scientific Research VII, Ankara, Türkiye, 2 - 04 Aralık 2022, ss.933-949
As physical and
spiritual renewal places, baths have taken a very important place in daily and
social life practices throughout the ages. Existing written sources, objects in
which the experiences conveyed by the depiction method are processed, and
archaeological findings date the bath culture to the 5th century BC. Baths;
they have been institutions that enable people to fully realize their health,
cleaning, education and daily life needs, strive to reach large masses, and
give their users a social and cultural habit. The baths, which are supported
under the same roof with many places such as conference and sports halls,
libraries, recreation areas, are highly regarded as symbolic structures
reflecting the policies of the powerful imperial system. In the construction technology, the beginning
of the use of concrete as a building material as a new system; dome, vault and
inclined shapes in theform of baths. Developing the Greek bath architecture, in
which large interior spaces are supported by columns, and integrating it with
vaults, the Romans created spaces that combine washing and physical activities
with a cleverly planned spatial arrangement and design. In this study, it is
aimed to examine the bath and bathing culture from a historical perspective
throughout the ages, to reveal the similarities and differences between
cultures, and to question the effect of the transformation of the ages on
spatial responses. In the changing time and context, it is aimed to make the
findings clear about how the bath culture has acquired a place for itself, what
it has pioneered or what it has been influenced by. In line with the aim, to determine the
historical development and transformation of the bath and bathing culture, to
determine how the Greek architecture and the Roman architecture that developed
and complemented it were reciprocated in different geographies, cultures and
religions, to reveal the use of material, technical, etc. features in design
and planning, to question the place of intellectual activities in social life
in the baths, to determine how the baths are affected under economic and
ideological conditions has constituted the method to be followed. As a result of the study, it has been
understood that throughout history, baths have formed the building block of
social life and symbolically represented civilization. The study conducted; it is important in terms
of creating an infrastructure for today's designs by revealing the loss of
meaning of the bath culture as it comes to today, its semantic transformation
with new sections added, and sometimes its state of existence in continuity.