Examined within the scope of the study, the Küçükavulcuk Village is affiliated with the district of Ödemiş in İzmirprovince in Western Anatolia and located at a distance of only 2 km from the important settlement of Birgi, whichis of striking quality with its historical fabric, in the district. Following the Metropolitan Law No. 6360, enacted in2012, it administratively became a neighborhood of İzmir province. However, the settlement will be referred to as avillage in this study. The study aims to scrutinize and document the settlement pattern and to develop proposals forthe sustainability of the houses. The subject is addressed in the light of site surveys and the literature research.The Küçükavulcuk Village is a rural area in which the collective settlement order is seen, where the agriculturallands are located on the fringe of the settlement, and whose livelihood depends on agriculture and animal husbandry.Its proximity to Birgi, which used to be the capital city of Aydınoğulları Principality, facilitates the transportationpossibilities. Nevertheless, the recent experience of a water problem has been reducing the agricultural product rangeand migration from the village takes place. This causes the houses to remain empty and, when they are not used, towear and disappear rapidly.The settlement reflects simpler architecture than Birgi but the traditional houses of a high quality. In Küçükavulcuk,the houses are generally two-storey buildings and the downstairs includes service spaces such as stable and granary,whereas the upstairs serves as living floor. A planning scheme with an open outdoor hall (sofa) is mostly seen onthe living floor, and a connection with the hall (sofa) from the downstairs is provided by means of an outdoor oran indoor staircase. The construction system of the houses is masonry downstairs but studwork with mud plasterupstairs. Besides the non-survival and abandonment of the houses, the alterations which are made in order for themto answer the current living conditions but which damage their originality threaten the sustainability of the buildingsby maintaining their characteristics.In the study, it is suggested to use ecotourism as a means in the context of maintaining the settlement and the housesand of conveying them to the future.