This research highlights the elements of the traditional residence building in Sana'a, and tends to explain its intellectual trends, environmental, economic, social and cultural, in order to conclude a set of results, recommendations and suggestions that will contribute to the promotion and development of the level of thinking design in a building housing Yemeni contemporary and future, in accordance with the requirements of modern economic and social development. The problem of this research is that Yemeni modern buildings do not respond exactly to the actual population needs. This fact indicates that most of the designs came disproportionately with the cultural aspect of objective human behavior of the Yemeni society, its customs and traditions. in addition, other problems may arise, in environmental, economic and social sectors, that are related to architectural and urban concepts