Grammer based architectural design: Elementary school typologies in Mardin

Mardin is a rare city which is regarded to be an entirely cultural legacy thanks to its historical background of centuries old, as well as to its well-preserved traditional architecture. However, this cultural legacy now faces the risk of deterioration and loss vis-a-vis today?s building requirements.Constructions made owing to requirements for housing, education and healthcare buildings, in particular, and assumed to provide today?s comfort conditions, are now threatening Mardin?s architecture and historical background. Because of all such constructions, an urban culture develops in Yenişehir, in particular, which lacks in harmony with traditional architecture of Mardin.Planning and implementing investments in education and healthcare sectors are among essential functions of public administration. However, because of limited resources available, public administration fails to meet requirements of the crowded and not-so-rich population spread over a wide geography.Our country are in need of contemporary educational buildings and effort is made to reshape the construction culture arising from such need by means of type projects realized by public administration. Type projects give birth to variety of functional problems as they do not predict social and educational developments. They also trigger non-category building developments without any character as they are re-used in every city.Production of architectural design in a traditional texture making use of analytical sources available at hand is one of areas of use of ?Shape Grammers?. This method has been used for identifying new typological alternatives in designing of contemporary elementary schools in Mardin, as well.Keywords: Mardin, architecture language, architectural design in traditional texture, educational buildings, contemporary elementary school typologies