Auxiliary Spaces in Rural Production: Granaries

Outbuildings describe auxiliary structures that contain space, built to undertake functions that are not undertaken by residences in traditional rural settlements. In this context, in rural areas that generally make a living from agriculture and animal husbandry; Corrals and barns, haystacks, woodsheds/tezekliks/coal sheds and warehouses, which are directly related to the house, can be counted as priority. Within the scope of this study, the warehouse structures located in the İskilip district of Çorum province, which were built entirely of wood, with qualified workmanship and bell technique, and which have survived to the present day with their original qualities, are discussed. These structures, whose extinction process is accelerating day by day due to the lack of any documentation or conservation work to date, constitute an important part of rural culture and life dynamics. Within the scope of the study, examinations were made in the villages of İskilip district of Çorum province, warehouse structures with unique characteristics were identified and documented. Within the scope of the documentation, the spatial setups of the buildings, traditional construction systems and construction materials are systematically explained with the measured drawings created as a result of photographs, measurements and examinations; It has been evaluated from a typological point of view. Comparisons were made with the warehouse structures in the world and in our country and inferences were made about the general warehouse architecture. With this study, it is aimed to document these unique structures that have survived from the past to the present against the possibility of extinction due to human and geographical reasons, and thus to maintain their structural integrity and transfer them to the future.