Traditional Muş housing architecture

The buildings considered as traditional residential architecture have characteristic features and construction techniques due to the differences in climate, building materials, topography, beliefs and cultural values. These structures, which show the characteristics of the region in its pure and complete form, have been replaced by uniform modern buildings whose architecture and construction materials do not change according to the regions with new living conditions and changes with the transition to the modern age. Especially the density of reinforced concrete structures built in our country, the late regulation of the laws necessary for the protection of these traditional structures and our indifference to the structures have left these important structures, which are inherited from our past, to face extinction. These traditional houses reflecting our cultural identity should be registered and these buildings should be open for use after protection and repair works. Located in the Upper Murat-Van Region of the Eastern Anatolia Region, the city of Muş has been a settlement area where important civilisations have lived throughout history. The traditional civil architecture of the city has developed according to topography, climate, customs and traditions. When the traditional Muş Houses are considered in general, they are built with masonry construction technique, using stone and adobe materials, with an inner hall; single, two and rarely three storeys and flat earthen roofs. The courtyard unit, which has an important place in Traditional Turkish Housing Architecture when considered in social and cultural terms, is the spaces that provide the transition between the house and the street, and the courtyard unit in the city of Muş is called "Havuş". Unfortunately, one of the cities where traditional houses have been destroyed is the city of Muş. Due to the earthquakes in the city of Muş, landslides in 1963 and later, and especially in 2013, most of the houses were demolished due to TOKİ urban transformation in the region that forms the texture of the old city of Muş. With this thesis study, some registered and unregistered cultural historical houses in the city of Muş and its districts were identified by scientific method and method, drawings were made and building plan typologies, construction techniques, facade, ornamentation and system details were examined. In this study, construction techniques, materials and architectural elements of traditional houses were evaluated.