Abstract
Old Harran house, or what remains of it, is a beehive houses existing on the Harran/Shanlıurfa. Its old vernacular houses were designed and constructed in order to be sustainable and to subsist through hundreds of years. Each family constructed mud house to its name and call it beehive house. The beehive houses are an evidence of vernacular architecture and rural urbanization. But in the near time, the indigenous inhabitants of Old Harran were relocated to Halfeti region. In the new Harran settlements, the houses did not meet the expectations of indigenous people about the sustainable architecture and social sustainability. This paper aims to demonstrate the particularity of Old Harran, especially when it comes to vernacular architectural sustainability. The hypothesis of this paper is that a vernacularly conceived urban space, like Old Harran, it can take lessons from in a way the principles of sustainable architecture/urbanism. It also conducts a comprehensive survey concerning the architectural /urban advantages of each one of houses.
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