Sustainable living is basically being able to construct the balance of protecting and using natural resources. In this way, the heritage value transferred to future generations is formed by the interaction of people and the environment. This is also very important for “architecture”, which expresses sustainability and is an important tool. In addition to the continuity of sustainable architecture and cultural heritage, it is possible to create economic resources and detect sociological data. Local architecture, which bridges the past and the present and best reveals the relationship of people with each other and their environment, has a place in many parts of the world with its rich diversity. Local architecture has an active place in contemporary society with its cultural, socio-economic and concrete identity values. These structures are protected by various strategies and methods and transferred to future generations. One of these methods is adaptive re-use. Within the scope of adaptive re-use, the study examined the principles of sustainability through eight second-degree registered İslamköy residences in the Demirel Complex of İslamköy village in Atabey district of Isparta province in Turkey. Thus, by evaluating three basic principles, environmental, economic and social, in terms of the continuity of local architecture with the sub-parameters determined, it was aimed to reveal the benefits and damages caused by the complex to the settlement in terms of sustainability. In this way, the change and transformation created by re-functioning with the renewal of building materials and typology was examined.

Bauhaus, sanat, zanaat ve endüstriyi birleştirerek fonksiyonel ve sanatsal ürünler ortaya çıkarmayı hedefleyen bir tasarım okuludur. Endüstri devriminin de etkisi ile Bauhaus’un temel eğitimi; uygun malzeme ve fonksiyonelliğin birleşmesi sonucunda çıkan ürünün güzel olması yönündedir. Buradan yola çıkarak ele alınan eğitim ekolü; süreç içerisinde mimariye, iç mekana ve mobilyalara da yansımıştır. Böylelikle bir tasarım anlayışının farklı ölçeklerden mobilya ölçeğine kadar kendine biçim bulduğu görülmektedir. Literatür araştırması olarak yürütülen çalışma; Bauhaus akımının üç dönemi olan Weimar, Dessau, Berlin dönemi ve bu dönemlere ait atölyeleri kapsamaktadır. Bu dönemlerin önemli temsilcileri ve atölyelerde aktif rol oynayan tasarımcılar; Johannes Itten, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Josef Albers, Alfred Arndt ve Mies Van Der Rohe’nin mobilya tasarımları, eğitim metodları ele alınmıştır. Atölye çalışmalarındaki mobilyalar; sandalyeler üzerinden betimsel tarama yöntemi ile incelenmiş ve Bauhaus yöneticileri, mobilya atölyesinin atölye ustaları ve mobilyaları kategorilendirilmiştir.

Günümüzün en yaygın sosyalleşme yerlerinin arasında alış veriş merkezleri bulunmaktadır. Kamusal mekânların geniş programlı hali olarak da tanımlanan alışveriş merkezleri birçok tasarım yaklaşımı ile tasarlanmaktadır. Birçoğu farklı tasarımlarda olan alış veriş merkezleri çevre dostu ve yenilikçi konseptlerde de karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Küreselleşme, artan nüfus ve beraberinde getirdiği artan ihtiyaçlar dünyayı sürdürülebilir tasarım yaklaşımlarına daha da yönlendirmiştir. Bu yönleniş içerisinde alış veriş merkezleri de bulunmaktadır. Yapılan bu çalışma kapsamında çevreci ve yenilikçi tasarım kavramı nedir, neden oraya çıkmıştır ve bu kavramlarla alışveriş merkezleri arasındaki bağlantı nedir? araştırılmıştır. Bu araştırmada çevre dostu ve yenilikçi bir tasarım olan modern çatı bahçeleri de incelenmiştir. Bu kapsamda çatı bahçeleri ve AVM kavramının birleştiği örnekler incelenmiştir. Yapılan bu çalışma kapsamında bu yaklaşıma örnekler incelenmiş ekolojik yaşama nasıl katkıları olduğu tartışılmıştır.

Minimalism, in its most general sense, is to carry simple features by being purified from exaggeration. Minimalist movements are an important attitude that shows its influence in every field from painting to music, from literature to architecture today as it was in the past. It is also a way of saying a lot with little. The systems of thought that created this concept firstly found a place in human life as a "philosophy of life", and then showed itself in all places where people are. The minimalist approach in the use of living spaces is reflected in the architecture, summarized by Mies Van Der Rohe's philosophy of "less is more". Minimalist lifestyle and various philosophies; It is very important how the past, present and future bridge is reflected in the spaces and with what features it appears as a concrete example. From this point of view, the study consists of two main stages that follow each other. The first stage of the study; deals with the reflection of the minimalist attitude from the human life cycle to architecture. In the second stage; minimalist life philosophies obtained through literature research; Seven residences, which are thought to express the traces of Feng Shui, Zen, Wabi-Sabi, Buddhism, Hygge, Friluftsliv and Anatolian life, were examined. The structures were examined through the morphological card technique over their physical formations, and spatial readings of the structures were made regarding minimalist approaches. As a result; Although in various cultures, the reflection of minimalist approaches of lifestyles on buildings and common points in the formal expressions they reveal have been observed.

Throughout the historical process humans have shaped the environment that they lived in and developed it according to their needs. The living culture has been formed with various spatial setups in dwellings which are the most basic habitats of humankind. Today, functionality comes into prominence in this living culture which is referred to as traditional dwellings. This shows that the continuity is ensured by presenting mass and cultural harmony between spatial setups and the garden and neighboring dwelling relations. Amongst the traditional dwellings, Turkish house is also considered as an important example, which provides continuity with its diverse plan organizations and spatial characteristic. The courtyard character in traditional dwellings is the space that is effective in the organization of spatial which sheds light on present day with various parameters. This is because the dwelling is located in the courtyard. Moreover, the courtyard, which starts with the entrance and where the households carry out their daily lives, is very significant for the Turkish dwelling as it contains both natural and cultural characteristics. The traditional dwellings of the village of Islamköy, which is located in the Atabey district in Isparta province of Turkey, are discussed within the scope of the study, which examines how the concept of courtyard that contains the functional and aesthetic values of the Turkish dwelling, forms various plan organizations and spatial characters in many cultures, affects the spatial quality. Spatial quality parameters were examined on five second-degree registered traditional dwellings located on Okul Street in the Islamköy village. Three basic principles have been determined which are functional, aesthetic and ecological and the sub-parameters of these determined principles have been introduced with the information and documents obtained from the literature. The AHP method was used to determine the priorities of the parameters in this direction. Thus, taking into account the spatial quality parameters, the priority parameters of the courtyard character in the traditional dwellings of Islamköy were determined