Title: ANALYSIS OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE IN TERMS OF SUSTAINABLE CONSIDERATIONS: THE CASE OF ŞİRİNCE VILLAGE IN WESTERN TURKEY
Abstract: The growing awareness of sustainable building’s potential to positively impact environmental issues push vernacular architecture to the forefront in order to understand of how to apply sustainable considerations to buildings. Vernacular architecture presents basic and simple solutions for the sustainable issues because it has significant environmentally features that respond to sustainability such as low-energy techniques to provide for human comfort, approaches that are integral to the form, orientation, and materials that are obtained local resources. With the evidence that vernacular architecture has some of the remarkable features of sustainability, this study aims to examine Sirince vernacular settlement in the western of Turkey in order to explore inherited experience and knowledge, and learning lessons from the past. Analyzing environmentally-responsive features of vernacular architecture will provide significant insights and lessons for designers who are involved in the development of future sustainable built environments.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-12-27
Language: en
Type: article
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