Description on this project

Located in the outer courtyard of Topkapı Palace, Hagia Irene has the typical form of a Roman basilica, consisting of a nave and two aisles, which are divided by three pairs of piers. This helps to support the galleries above the narthex. Semicircular arches are also attached to the capitals which also helps to provide support to the galleries above. The basilica is approximately 100m long and the dome itself is 15m wide and 35m high and has twenty windows. Design and seismic retrofitting, reliefs, non-destructive investigations, shaking table tests of a physical model on a scale of 1:10.