Investigation and Morphological Analysis of the Baths of the Menteşeoğulları Principality Period

The ancient cities of Beçin and Balat were the capital of Menteşeoğulları Principality in certain periods and are now like an open-air museum. There are eight Turkish Baths belonging to the Menteşeoğulları Principality Period that have survived to the present day. Five of these baths are in the ancient city of Beçin and three are in the ancient city of Balat. Of these baths, two of the five baths found in the ancient city of Beçin, and one of the three baths found in the ancient city of Balat are private baths, and the others are general baths. Detailed research was carried out on these baths, which are our cultural heritage, and the general condition, architectural and structural features of the baths were examined and documented. In addition, it is aimed to analyze the fiction of space by making morphological analysis of the baths studied by rule-based analysis. In the analysis study, syntactic and shape grammar were used as a method of analysis. By syntactic analysis, the relationship between spaces and the depth of space, the formation of spaces was analyzed by shape grammar analysis, and cognitive rules of tradition were tried to be revealed. The structure of the baths, the relationship between the spaces and how the Baths of the Menteşeoğulları Principality Period were formed and developed with certain rules were examined.