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In the context of Ankara, the subject of this article is Birtan Kundura, located in the Küçükesat Region. With its original and unique story, Birtan Kundura contributes to historiography and architectural historiography as a reading tool of the transdisciplinary study through a social history perspective. It, therefore, includes a narrative that lies in the periphery of the interior through the perspective of subjects not included in the official historiography, via contextual evaluation, periodical examination and urban oral testimonies. In this research, 'Birtan Kundura' and Birtan Family are considered as the creators of micro-stories that exist in 'everyone's narratives', making them part of an urban history archaeology in the cross-section of social history. The theoretical framework of the study is founded on Michel Foucault's Archeology of Western Culture (2011), Patrick Nuttgens' The Story of Architecture (1983) and Bernard Tschumi's Questions of Space (2004). The methodology involves oral history, taking its source from individual stories (Perks, R., 1998). In this sense, it transforms the holistic historical narrative into a tool that deepens structural and semantic content through an alternative approach that includes the social: in this case, spatial production and actors. The aim of this article is to present the change, transformation and extinction of daily habits through an interior space, and to make a structural/semantic assessment of the space, which adds value to the holistic narrative, looking at the past and the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]