1993 - HANDMADE HIGHRISES like this are the contemporary vernacular for new housing throughout the eastern Mediterranean. There are tens of thousands of buildings just like it—concrete frame, structural clay tile walls (often made by the occupants), three to seven stories high (no elevator), often a solar water heater on top. Small local firms frame up the building in concrete with hand-built forms raised story by story—frequently with rebar left sticking out of the top in case more floors are added later. The floors are finished and occupied in random sequence (as here, in Seljuk, Turkey)
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