This paper aims to define an adapted contemporary design language for housing built next to vernacular residential buildings of Anatolian villages. The case has been selected from Balıkesir province in the North-western part of Anatolia within a corpus of 104 houses from selected 81 villages of the region. Originally, vernacular house plans consist of allocation of rooms around a hall: sofa. Each room is a core living space with everyday living needs for a family. House is formed with various spatial relations between sofa and rooms around it. This relation is the determinative feature in formation of vernacular language for each Anatolian house. The study has three phases: analysis, adaptation and generation. The first phase analyzes the elements of vernacular by decomposing its language into sub-parts. In the second phase, the inadequacies of existing vernacular structures were exposed with methods of observation and questionnaires applied on users and new demands for living have been adapted with vernacular existing language grammar rules. In the last phase within the framework of adapted language rules for Balıkesir vernacular, numerous novel design alternatives were generated. This study claims to sustain the existing socio-cultural spatial configuration by adapting newly built contemporary houses to actual vernacular architecture in the planning context.

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Turkish vernacular housing architecture is in danger of extinction. Original village patterns deteriorate due to new developments, which are discordant with existing settlements and social lifestyle. This paper claims to ensure the cultural continuity of Turkish vernacular housing architecture by adapting new residential designs to the existent environment with a parametric shape grammar method. Originally, vernacular house plans included the allocation of space around a hall: a Sofa. This study firstly exposes spatial organization and grammar rule sets according to the relation between the sofa and remaining spaces, secondly considers current physical problems and villagers' contemporary living demands and finally creates design solutions coherent with the actual vernacular character by adapting a new design grammar to the existing design.

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Health is one of the basic needs of humanity. People use hospitals to control and treat their health. As the most advanced health structures, hospitals have been transformed with new requirements and systems throughout history. Health structure design contains various inputs, data, and criteria. This study reveals the network of relations with a rule-based design method to provide systematic design assistance for architects. Hospitals have complex structures in terms of the design solution and production management. Therefore, it will be useful to systematize these complex structures for design inputs to create a base for the architectural program. Within the framework of this study, rule-based design approaches were adopted for hospital polyclinics. Polyclinics work independently but are linked to the main hospital system. Today the main design problems in polyclinics are accessibility and visibility. The main purpose of this study is to create a model base for alternative plan types by taking advantage of the productive method: rules-based design. Firstly, to consider the functional relations and distances among multiple units for an optimum solution, the study evaluates the existing working designs and their derivatives. Secondly, it addresses the optimization of hospital polyclinic design in terms of obtaining the minimum route overlap, minimum walking distance, and high visibility of the patients in the polyclinics. Thirdly, due to the repetitive nature of polyclinic spaces, the space grammar method has been used as a rule-based approach for the derivation of spaces. The genetic algorithm method used together with the shape grammar is included in the study to process the formal and numerical data and to compare the original design alternatives. The spatial sequence technique of Space Syntax is used as an evaluation method. In the mixed method of this study, the relational information obtained from existing hospitals has been resolved. These relations have created design rules for an outpatient polyclinic architectural program by binary and triplet relations. Alternative productions with the genetic algorithm tools have been generated through the Rhino / Grasshopper software extension. The generated plans have been evaluated with the spatial sequence technique of Space Syntax theory to explore optimum solutions for distance and visibility.