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Turkish vernacular housing architecture is in danger of extinction. Original village patterns deteriorate due to new developments, which are discordant with existing settlements and social lifestyle. This paper claims to ensure the cultural continuity of Turkish vernacular housing architecture by adapting new residential designs to the existent env...
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... creates a variety in housing culture from a primitive type to the most developed one. Balıkesir is a province which is located in the northwestern region of Anatolia with coasts on two seas ( Figure 1) and is a unique place with its pure and simple vernacular housing examples in which nearly half a million rural residents live in 892 villages (TUIK, 2013). Generally, building formation is rectangular in shape, unornamented and simply planned. ...
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... E.18 adds two rooms and a space which is room or kitchen-room (Z) on the long vertical edge of T-shape. Z is the first room next to entrance house front fac¸adefac¸ade (F) and may extend over entrance alignment line (F(Z)) ( Figure 10). ...
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... are attached horizontally to front fac¸adefac¸ade (F) with Rule IS.4. Rule IS.5 moves stairs next to inner side (In(S(L))) of L-shape sofa (Figure 11). ...
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... stairs are at the left or right inner edge of sofa front side (LfRg(F(S(R)))) for Rule ES.3 only when sofa front fac¸adefac¸ade alignment is below the attached spaces of Rule E.5. This rule can be applied only for rectangular sofa (S(R)) type houses ( Figure 12). ...
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... to Knight (1999), grammar rules of source design can be transformed by adding, deleting or changing to a new style design (Knight 1994). The ''adapted design process'' uses the existing grammar rules and creates new designs by adaptation rules with embedded or newly added attached vocabulary ( Figure 13). Original Anatolian rural housing has adaptation problems to contemporary living conditions. ...
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... bathroom is located inside the house with a connection hall to define a Bathroom & Hall (BH). Other elements are used for transition purposes: Entrance Hall (E) and Corridor (C) (Figure 14). ...
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... of the basic module in vertical and horizontal directions defines a ''grid base system''. Adapted housing is generated on this grid base system to form a rectangular plan for each design (Figure 15). Room (R), Kitchen & Storage (KSt), and Bathroom & Hall (BH) have the same dimensions with one basic module. ...
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... width is equal to the adjoining sofa edge. Rule A.9 rotates T-shape sofa 90 and connects E to sofa from backside (Bc(E)) which has same width with bottom edge of sofa ( Figure 17). ...
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... first room near to front fac¸adefac¸ade may expand forwards to front fac¸adefac¸ade within Rule A.12 and A.13. Rule A.14 adds a room to backside of sofa which has BH defined with Rule A.11. Rule A.15 adds the second room (R2) by expanding the sofa with Rule A.14. So the total number of spaces increases to three and total width of spaces becomes equal to the sofa width ( Figure 18). L-shape sofa adaptation is defined with Rules A.16 to A.18. Rule A.16 adds a BH to sofa back edge. ...
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... second space can be a room or BH (U). The symmetry in this rule adds spaces in the opposite inner region of T-shape ( Figure 19). Corridor Rules for Adapted Design. ...
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