They can easily become extended just by addition. They were mostly erected in the aim of creating many cellular rooms by using a simple timber-frame structure. However the next plan(4th century BC) prepared for the same temple was insisting an arranged order of columns to make theĬenter arena visible from all the aspects.Īnother point which is expressed with nice pictures is the part that the writer talks about Victorian age houses. The same structural plan is used in this place but for a different goal a place of performing! The columns situated in the structure becomes barriers to block the view of spectators. That is why I cannot understand the logıc behind the telesterion at Eleusis.

This kind of a structure is completely unsuitable if you are not using it as a gate or a way to arrive to a largerĪrea. In ancient times numerous columns had been used to obtain large spaces as in this temple. The part that Unwin was mentioning to the Temple of Ammon at Karnak was really striking. Throughout the history there have been great samples of all three categories. This legitimates the tree categories figured out by Simon Unwin “the dominant structural order, the dominant spatial order and the harmonic relationship between the two”. The close relation between structure and surface cannot be underestimated in the world of architecture, even if there are examples of the buildings which give more prominence to one of them rather than the other.

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