Reflection of local culture on architecture: Kayaköy case

Anatolian geography can be seen both simultaneously side by side and in successive time periods and it has hosted a variety of civilizations that can be said to be innumerable. Those who created these civilizations have been able to carry their traces, beliefs, languages, customs and traditions, and lifestyles as original pieces in the multicultural mosaic of Anatolia until today. Whether intangible or concrete, these ancient values, which we can call "cultural heritage" in general terms, are also the life codes of the societies that make them up. While this study, on one hand, seeks to find it in the cultural diversity and social lives of the life codes of the Anatolian geography, on the other hand, it also carries the aim of a harmonic reading in which the traces of the "local" are traced, the transfer of local culture to architecture and the social logic of the space are tried to be questioned. Kayaköy, which was chosen as the study area, is without a doubt; As in different geographies of Anatolia, it deserves this attention with its history, culture, architectural texture, locality, "sustainability" of the local, witnessing of the most dramatic events in history, the exchange of population, abandonment and finally dozens of "calculations" made on it by different segments of people.