Evaluation of the Flexible Elements Components in Housing Design to Determine their Priority according to Delphi Design Method

Subject Areas : Architecture

Hamid Asadi ¹ ( Department of Architecture, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran. )
Seyyed Majid Hashemi Toghroljerdi ² ( Department of Architecture, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran. )
Mitra Ghafourian ³ ( School of Architecture and Environmental Design, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran )
Hamed Abedini ⁴ ( Department of Architecture, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Khatam University, Tehran, Iran. )

Received: 2021-10-05 Accepted : 2022-01-25 Published : 2023-01-01

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