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1- Architecture Department, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design, Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran , m.afshary@aui.ac.ir
2- Architecture Department, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design, Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
2- Architecture Department, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design, Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
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This paper aims to identify the socio-cultural factors affecting the durability of contemporary housing in Iran and explain the role of culture and beliefs of society in the longer useful life of housing architecture.The nature of the research is applied and in terms of the research approach it is survey type (quantitative-qualitative). In the first step, a list of socio-cultural criteria affecting housing durability was extracted from the theoretical. In the second step, in order to verify and evaluate the extracted criteria, a questionnaire was answered by experts using the Delphi technique. The third step was to measure the value of each of these criteria and prioritize them by the people. The population of this questionnaire was about 210 people from the general public who were randomly selected. In the fourth step, with the help of Analytical Hierarchy Method (AHP) based on pairwise comparisons, the criteria found by the community of experts were ranked and weighted. In the final step, the prioritization of people and experts was compared. In the two first steps, ten cultural-social factors, affecting the useful life of housing were identified: a sense of belonging, flexibility, modernity, media, playing the role of the operator in the design and construction process, social class and dignity, neighborhood, access and local services of the city, spatial quality, and security. In the next steps, the criteria found by experts were ranked and weighed by using analytic hierarchical analysis (AHP) based on the pairwise comparison. The research findings were done through comparative summarization among people and experts’ prioritization regarding socio-cultural criteria. The consensus of people and experts on the importance of two security and spatial quality factors as the most important socio-cultural factors affecting durability indicates the special influence of these two factors on individuals’ tendency for longer use of housing.
Type of Study: Original Article |
Subject:
the comparative studies of Architecture and Urbanism in the realm of Cultural Iran
Received: 2024/08/19 | Accepted: 2025/01/2
Received: 2024/08/19 | Accepted: 2025/01/2
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