Mut (Mersin) Kentsel Kültür Varlıkları Envanteri 2004

Abstract

Located in Goksu Valley, Mut is a district of Mersin province and is bounded by Karaman in the north, Ermenek in the west, Gulnar in the south and Silifke on the southeast. Be­cause Central Anatolia and the Mediterrane­an region are connected via Mut and the Sertavul Pass, many civilizations have settled he­re ever since prehistoric times. Examples of buildings that belong to the Seljukid, Karama­nogullari and Ottoman periods and remains from the ancient period in the center of the district protected Mut, was built on top of Claudiopolis, a Roman period settlement. The city of Mut began developing from the central point created by Mut Fortress (inner fortress) the nucleus of the settlement and whose earliest construction is said to date back to the Hittite, period, the La'al Pasa Complex from the Karamanogullari period and Tas Han, On the south side of the center, the commercial tissue in the vicinity of Tas Han, an Ottoman building spreads out and is made up of one-story shops. Mut's traditional houses arise in the neigh­borhood from the basic plan type known as eyes, one space, This main type of plan is made up of two rooms, one on each side of a separate area that can be termed the sofa. In time new plan designs generated from this basic form. The outer walls of the structures, built using Stone in massive masonry construction tech­nique, were kept quite thick in order to give protection from excessive heat because of climatic conditions. The top of the buildings have a roof of flat earth. While a number of changes were made without spoiling the fun­damental main lines up to the 1950's using the same construction techniques, the plan design shows that traditional Mut homes we­re still being built. After the 1950's, when the region started growing rather sapidly in an unplanned manner as happened generally in most Anatolian cities, one sees that the tradi­tional structures were affected and surrende­red their place to multi-story concrete buil­dings. A six-member team carried out a study bet­ween (Oct 18th-28th, 2004) in Mut district, inventory records created for 276 buildings, and forty-four building blocks the settlement in the Kale, Doganci and Meydan districts and photographic documentation created for the above, comprising 1952 digital photos, The remains of the ancient city of Claudiopolis merged with the traditional fabric of the city of Mut, which was built on top of it Because it is the subject of research in a different field of expertise, it was registered under a sepa­rate title of study that will probably be carried out later. This study has taken place within the frame­work of the Turkish Academy of Sciences -Turkey's Cultural Sector (TUBA-TUKSEK) Cultural Inventory Project of Turkey and has been supported by the Mut municipality and Yildiz Technical University, Faculty of Archi­tecture, Restoration Department.