Research of traditional Konya house in sustainabile architecture context

The deterioration of ecological balance, in environmental pollution parallelism, is the most critical problem of 20th century. Duration of the living existence is possible with the sustainability of life surroundings. In the present, fast urbanization with the industrialization and developing technology, that causes to damage ecologic balances and extermination of cultural and historical worths. In this context, ecologic criterions which shuld be applied on the architectural desings are researched for a sustainabile future. The objective of this research is to examine the sustainabile development concept which is seeking for a compromise between economic development and environment in the architectural frame, to define the sustainable architecture and design criterions, to explain these with a totalitarion approach. It is aimed to catch indications from local architectural datas while doing that research. Thus environment sensitive design criterions are studied over effects in the architectural constitution of ?Traditional Konya House?. In this study, first, sustainability concept and its connection with the architecture is examined. Later, the importance of ecological values are explained to supply a sustainabile environment constitution. The criterions which should be applied on architectural designs are evaluated by environment sensitive design. İn the forth chapter of the study, general characteristic of the Turkish house is mentioned in the first stage. After the explaining of research area in the second stage, evaluations are made over the Konya house in the traditional residence scale and studied to determine the application probability of sustainability in the architecture. The evaluations are made in state plan, plan scheme and building materilas scale. In the result, ıt is expressed that the importance of ecology-design connection and is proposed protection of the traditional residence buildings. Keywords: Sustainability, ecological architecture, Turkish house, traditional house architecture, Konya, traditional Konya house.