In scale of zeydan neighborhood bitlis traditional houses in contex of space syntax and visibility graph analysis

Throughout history, Bitlis has hosted many civilizations due to the Silk Road passing through the city and strategically important. This situation has brought the city significant archaeological and urban sites. In these sites, the most important buildings which form urban fabric are Bitlis traditional houses. Geographical and climatic conditions are quite effective for positioning of Bitlis traditional houses. In the study besides these effects, a number of social and cultural effects were investigated by using programme analyses. The study consists of five parts. In the first part of the study a brief introduction to the thesis was made and in the second part summaries of the literature of utilized studies were explained. In the material and method part the objective, the scope and the method of the thesis were described. In the fourth part, by defining the space syntax theory objective, application fields and parameters of space syntax analysis were explained. In addition, this part includes information about programme 'Agraph' which is used for analysis. By defining visible area method, purpose and application fields of visibility graph analysis were explained. 'Depthmap' programme and a number of analyses which made by it were also explained in this part. In the fourth part which explains how the study area -Bitlis- developed throughout history, Zeydan Neighborhood where there are investigated traditional houses, Bitlis urban fabric and Bitlis traditional houses' characteristics were mentioned. Visibility graph and space syntax analyses made through programmes 'Agraph' and 'Depthmap' and results of analyses were mentioned. Consequently, with this study it is explained by the results of two different analyses made one by one and comperative that in the formation of Bitlis traditional housing, various social and cultural factors play active role in addition to environmental factors. Keywords: Bitlis, Zeydan Neighborhood, Space Syntax, Traditional House, Culture