3D Modeling of Hagia Sophia & GIS Applications for the Historical Water Supply - Çiğdem Özkan Aygün

Library Digital Scholarship Program, Fall 2022
The interdisciplinary survey and documentation of subterranean remains in the area of Hagia Sophia has begun in 2005 under the direction of Çiğdem Özkan Aygün. Her study has been continued with the surveys beneath Hippodrome and Topkapı Palace area and revealed the connections in the water supply. Dr. Aygün has been conducting the fieldworks of ‘Water in İstanbul’ project supported by BIAA since 2020.
Through those surveys, it is proved that Hagia Sophia’s area had a strategic place on the water supply distribution over the first hill of the city where was the extreme end of the ancient water supply line.