After victory of Istanbul by Fatih Sultan Mehmet he was at the age of 21 Fatih was very smart knowledge man and serious on everything what he needs to work on it. He order to built the palace between 1460 - 1478 The Topkapi Palace complex is located European side of the Istanbul overlooking the Golden horn and the sea of Marmara with nice view.its a home of sultans for nearly 380 years and was used as the administrative center of the empire. The architectural style of the palace is ottoman architecture and Baroque architecture.
The palace is very an extensive complex rather saying single component all going in and out the system of the design to be create how circulation can be work to move people in low building constructed around courtyards interconnected with galleries and passages, few of the building exceed two storey's interspersed are trees gardens and water fountains to give refreshing feeling to provide space to give place to rest. Topkapi palace surrounded with o most 10 ft walls to kept all palace in secure to other foreign people can't go inside of the palace.
The first court yard known as the Imperial Palace is through the courtyard The first palace courtyard, furnaces, mint ,flowers, guard regiment , wood , storage, and vegetable gardens were located on the plains. The main entrance of Topkapi Palace open very wide to reach to other sections its looks like all of the intersection have different points to enter one to another. Also the court yards very green space with long pine trees to decorate with marble fountains. The state and the government administrative center of the second courtyard The third courtyard White Eunuch squires, kept under control ,but no one did not pass without the express permission of the door ,was entered from the sultan 's private courtyard .The third and the fourth courtyard of the palace courtyard corridors ,pavilions in gardens started. Harem is a room for only