(Ebook) Vernacular Architectural Preservation of Material and Spiritual Interconnected Cultural Heritage by B.A. ALMIRA KHAFIZOVA Department of Architecture, Girne American University, Turkey E mail: [email protected]

(Ebook) Vernacular Architectural Preservation of Material and Spiritual Interconnected Cultural Heritage by B.A. ALMIRA KHAFIZOVA Department of Architecture, Girne American University, Turkey E mail: [email protected]

Vernacular architecture presents sustainable minimum-impactstructures harmonized with their context and inhabitants. Heritagepreserved tangible and intangible in material forms, encrypted spiritualbelieves of humanity's life in dwellings’ organization unveiling thedetails of our ancestors’ life and world cultures’ connectivity.Instigated by modern-world urbanization, sustainability and culturaldiversity issues, the study is researching on cultures connectivity,corresponding to the scale and context of the global cityscape andattempting to synthesize vernacular heritage. The objective of thisresearch is to study indigenous human congruent architecturalexamples and their relationship with intangible aspects of habitat. Thispaper will be adapting a qualitative method, by which it aims to studyand observe various examples so as to analyze interconnections ofSiberian Chums and Native-American Tipi, their design driving forces,settlement of the 2nd century BC- Arkaim and Japanese traditionalarchitecture.JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2018), 2(3), 10-19.https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.4714