THE TRANSFORMATION OF ANATOLIAN RURAL HOUSING IN MODERNIZATION PROCESS IN THE CONTEX OF CULTURAL CONTINUITY

City of Konya, one of the most important urban centers, has been an iconic city with its social and cultural features. Growth and development problem of city has been an interest for urban planning branch, but also the effections to housing design, and residential areas of planning, become an interest field for architecture.Economic, political and social developments are the main start point of migration process in rural areas to urban city. Residential areas has occurred in the fringes of city by migration. By the time, the families adopted to evaloution, began to move to city center. This moving process has affected urban form in determining direction of city's development as a leading factor.Some of the residental areas of immigrants slowly dissapeared and urbanized in transformation process and some of the main living areas of immigrants is fighting to protect their families against growing and changing urban formation. The vernacular architecture which is one of the main sources of traditional culture is urbanized by loosing its charecteristic features in this migration process. The main aim of this study is, transformation the architectural and cultural features of these houses to new generations by protecting spatial organization and adopting it to evalution.In the contex of continuity, three types of examples of vernacular architecture has been selected from villages of Middle East Anatolian and fringes of city. First is the original usage of rural house in villages of Konya, second is a migrated house in city fringes and the third is a modernized house in a village. All the samples are chosen from the same region of Middle East Anatolia, in Konya.