What would building be made out of in the 1500s. Particularly around Istanbul and the Mediterranean?

Answer 1

mud bricks

Answer 2

Construction materials would be: Stone, mortar, and wood, then mud and clay bricks twigs and animal dung, with limestone marble and even golden doors, as well as glass including stained glass and small bits of cast iron as well as various cloths and animal hides.

In 1458 a set of doors for a castle were made out of gold.
- The Romans built walls out of limestone, many of which remain today and would have been repaired with additional limestone in the 1500s.
- Marble was very popular to not only create statues and freezes, but to clad the walls.
- Hinges would have to be made out of out of cast iron. The same would be true for the nails and spikes that would be used to hold the wood together. (in 1452 they had cast iron cannons, but steel was created much later.)
- Nails were made out of cast iron and reused; they had to be made individually by a blacksmith and were very valuable.
- Various clays and fired tiles would be used.
- Glass was known long before this time as well as stained glass.
- Animal skins and cloth would be used as drapes, wall hangings, floor coverings etc.

For the major churches and castles most interior supports were wood, as were many roof rafters; wood is lighter. The roofs would have slate or clay tile roofs built on wooden rafters. Only the state buildings and mosques were built of stone the rest of the buildings were built of wood.

The poor would live in either a mud or clay brick house with twigs and leaves used as a roof. A few of those houses could be built out of wood with a mixture of clay and animal dung to create a wattle that could be pressed in between the twigs to stop air gaps.

The Ottoman Empire would be in control of the area at the time and that was a Moslem Empire so Mosques instead of churches were built and decorations could be ornate, but it was illegal to depict people and religious scenes in Mosques.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_and_daub
"Wattle and daub are building materials used in constructing houses. A woven latticework of wooden stakes called wattles is daubed with a mixture of clay and sand and sometimes animal dung and straw to create a structure."

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul
"The doors of the Porta Aurea were made of gold, hence the name, which means "Golden Gate" in Latin. In 1458 the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II built the Yedikule ("Seven Towers") Castle to defend the Porta Aurea, which was incorporated into this castle and still stands as a part of the pentagon-shaped layout of the castle walls…

The Ottoman Turks built the Anadoluhisarı on the Asian side of the Bosphorus in 1394, and the Rumelihisarı at the opposite (European) shore, in 1452, a year before the conquest of Constantinople. The main purpose of these castles, armed with the long range Balyemez (Faule Metze) cannons, was to block the sea traffic of the Bosphorus and prevent the support ships from the Genoese colonies on the Black Sea ports, such as Caffa, Sinop, and Amasra, from reaching Constantinople and helping the Byzantines during the Turkish siege of the city…

Following the Ottoman conquest of the city, Sultan Mehmed II initiated a wide scale reconstruction plan, which included the construction of grand buildings such as the Eyüp Sultan Mosque, Fatih Mosque, Topkapı Palace, The Grand Bazaar and the Yedikule (Seven Towers) Castle which guarded the main entrance gate of the city, the Porta Aurea (Golden Gate). In the centuries following Mehmed II, many new important buildings, such as the Süleymaniye Mosque, Sultanahmet Mosque, Yeni Mosque and numerous others were constructed.

Dolmabahçe Palace
Traditionally, Ottoman buildings were built of ornate wood. Only "state buildings" such as palaces and mosques were built of stone."

Answer 3

If they wanted longevity they would have used bricks and/or stones, if they didn't care about longevity they would have used wood.

Answer 4

stone wood and any stable substince if thats how u spell it =+I

Answer 5

stone

Answer 6

stone and mortar

Answer 7

stone, wood, maybe even skins, idk