Perpustakaan Digital ITB

Vernacular architecture, bearing the physical and socio-cultural characteristics of its in-situ environment and conveying thousands of years of accumulation and tradition, emerged from the hands of local building masters. While regional architecture is very extrinsic, it exhibits the character of an anonymous architect and is the clearest reflection of the local community’s traditions, culture, experience and customs. Behind it lies ancient knowledge, experience, skill and mastery that is passed down from generation to generation. It pertains to the vernacular architecture user’s lifestyle, identity and area of production which responds to its in-situ needs and has qualities that are peculiar to the region. The local architecture is a direct and unconscious transformation of community culture into material within the context of certain needs. Deriving from tradition, it is passed down from generation to generation as the community’s social and cultural documents. The goal of this article is to introduce, in terms of plan typology, general features and interior decoration, examples of regional housing units utilized by Turks living in Mu?la’s provincial district of Ula, one of the imporant regions of Anatolia featuring traditional vernacular architecture.