Abstract:

In Turkey with the law number 6360 the 14 province Metropolitan Municipality was established and the boundaries were re-designed; the " Village" legal personality was removed and joined the district municipality as a " neighborhood". In this case, it has also established the need to preserve, document the tissues in rural settlements that have become part of the city and to produce special solutions for these settlements. One of the settlements with the problems specified by the law is the Kocaeli villages. The aim of the study is to analyze the rural architecture and textile characteristics of "Avcıköy", to reveal their problems, to contribute to the data studies of rural settlements and in this way to discuss the future of rural architecture. The fact that no scientific research has been done on the Kocaeli Karamürsel rural settlements, which is the work area, increases the importance of this study once again. Literary research and fieldwork related to the field within the framework of the study; for the study of the village's tissue characteristics, functional, use status and layer individual analysis have been made. The face-to-face talks with the village people in the area showed that the problem of unemployment in Avcıköy, the problem of warming, water cuts, the lack of healthcare facilities and rural school caused the youth in the village to migrate and that the village population is increasingly aging. With the problems in the area, the rural people are getting away from agriculture, the rural houses are being abandoned because they are unable to meet the needs of the rural people; the neighboring parcels are building new concrete houses. Analysis has also shown that the number of houses carrying rural housing properties is increasingly decreasing. Current rural housing analyses have revealed that one single housing type cannot be mentioned in Avcıköy. However, according to the most common rural housing, a conclusion can be obtained. Most of the houses that preserve their original fabric have a street-based settlement, not separated by any element with the street. The neighboring parselle is sometimes found in stone walls and sometimes in houses that are not separated with any border element. The most common rural housing in the settlement consists of "terrain + 1 floor". The most intensely used is the wooden curcumin + curcumin filling technique. The building material is wood + clay. The roof is a roof and a roof. The study once again demonstrated that the sustainability of rural housing and living depends on the sustainability of rural production and agriculture. It is also recommended that the village be a focus point with the use of the existing potential, in accordance with the villas conditions, special legal arrangements to the issues of the area must be drawn out and that this work should be extended to cover the other districts of Kocaeli.