Explaining the Concepts of Organizing Desirable Housing in the Corporate Town (Case S‌tudy: New site and AB & Bargh Residential Complexes)

Subject Areas : Architecture

Sajad  Memardezfouli ¹ (Professor, Department of Architecture, Behbahan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Behbahan, Iran)
Mohammad Ebrahim  Mazhari ² (Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.)

Received: 2021-12-14 Accepted : 2022-05-12 Published : 2022-11-01

Keywords: Housing, Urban Planning, architecture, Corporate town, Organizing concepts,

Abstract :

Need to solve the housing problem, the formation of experimental projects and the design and construction of new organized concepts have been done. One of the areas that, due to the development of industries, contains various examples of corporate housing is the city of Ahvaz. The present study intends to explain these concepts by recognizing the components of optimal housing containing internal and external characteristics in these complexes. The research method in terms of applied-developmental goal and mixed technique includes; Descriptive methods and content analysis in the theoretical and correlational sections are comparative, and field in the case studies section. The type of simultaneous variable design combines quantitative and qualitative approaches with a theoretical framework. Finally, based on the conceptual model, In the first step to finding descriptive statistics, questionnaires with answers from the Likert spectrum according to the sample size are provided to the residents of 105 units on the news site and 66 units in the water and electricity dormitory for analysis by SPSS software In the next step, interviews based on research questions from a community of 10 experts who were selected by snowball method are compiled and inferential statistics are extracted by analyzing them. After introducing the results of two areas, quantitative and qualitative, and to achieve the desired housing components, a link between human factors, physical-social factors, and decision-making factors should be established. Strategies should be presented in the short, medium, and long term.

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