ANALYSIS OF VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE IN TERMS OF SUSTAINABLE CONSIDERATIONS: THE CASE OF ŞİRİNCE VILLAGE IN WESTERN TURKEY

The growing awareness of sustainable building’s potential to positively impact environmental issues pushes 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 from local resources. With the evidence that vernacular architecture has some of the remarkable features of sustainability, this study aims to examine Şirince vernacular settlement in the western of Turkey in order to explore inherited experiences and knowledge, and lessons learned from the past. Analysing environmentallyresponsive features of vernacular architecture will provide significant insights and lessons for designers who are involved in development of future sustainable built environments.