At Yassihoyuk village the courtyard house is the typical dwelling unit as in most of the mudbrick villages of the Middle East. The house is generally a walled compound in which are enclosed a number of buildings and installations for people and animals. The courtyard functions as an extension of the house, an amorphous space where people make activity choices, ranging from making bread to dung cakes, gardening, drinking tea and gossiping. It also serves as a "transitional space" between the privacy of house interior and public village grounds. The courtyard shape and size vary not only according to the household size or its wealth, but the type and arrangement of structures in it and the amount of land which the villager originally allocated to himself.