An Analysis on Spatial Organization of Living Room and Kitchen Spaces in Contemporary Domestic Architecture of Northern Cyprus

House is the section of an inside environment measured as a private place for humankind. Some other places such as workplaces, merchants, factories and also school are the section of an interior setting but there is a big difference, they are distributed to others. These types of places are arranged based on the needs of groups, clients and customers; they are definitely not private areas of the manger or customers. However, house environment is only the personal place between other inner surface environments which can be used as being an individual place. It is just the place where man structured their lifestyles based on the users’ needs, society, culture and climate. Especially living room and kitchens are the most important to trace functional complexities of daily living and dining, cultural ways of realization of functions, separation and integration according to privacy levels, adaptability for rituals and gathering, representation of personal preferences, and religious symbols. In domestic architecture since the early periods, it appeared that buildings had been started to change in several developing countries. According to these kind of alterations and within the new kind of houses, people cannot follow their own traditional habits and also their particular cultures’ lifestyle. This thesis aimed to re-define the characteristics of “living spaces” of vernacular architecture and investigate the new tendencies in Northern Cyprus in the case of Yeniboğaziçi village. Purposes of the study were to emphasize the importance of the inherited values of living spaces in contemporary architecture. And define continuities and discontinuities of characteristics of living spaces in recent housing developments in Yeniboğaziçi. Data for this research was based on the literature review and fieldwork consisting a case study on a series of selected houses at Yeniboğaziçi village. This study focused on house interiors only in living room and kitchen spaces. Moreover, major discussions in this study were based on user needs’, lifestyle, culture, and technology. This thesis formed into five parts. The first chapter is an introduction that is included of the basic information. In this part the significance of this study can clearly be understood due to the problems and also aim and the limitations of the study. Chapter two gives explanation of domestic architecture, spatial organization and architectural elements of living room and kitchen spaces in a house according to the effect of the culture and lifestyle on them. The third chapter gives explanation of spatial organization and architectural elements of living room and kitchen interiors of houses from Ottoman period to Turkish Republic period in Northern Cyprus in case of Yeniboğaziçi village. According to chapter three, in the fourth chapter, spatial organization of living room and kitchen spaces in houses from Yeniboğaziçi in Famagust in Northern Cyprus analyzed in three groups of houses. Group one is about five contemporary houses. Second group included five single new houses. And third group is about five apartments. Studies examined living room and kitchen spaces used observations, sketches and photograph of houses. The characteristics and spatial organization in interior design of houses are changing continuously. Developed the new materials, other than, new technologies have an effect on the form of the buildings, especially houses and their organizations, the elements and decorations. Increase in dynamics of Famagusta and expansion of urban texture until Yeniboğaziçi has transformed the vernacular settlement character and domestic architecture tradition dramatically. The analysis show that architectural values of vernacular architecture has abandoned. But new developments starting with “Citta Slow” membership has already motivated rediscovering process of the vernacular values.