Factors Affecting Apartment Complexes with an Approach to Improving the Quality of Residential Space

Authors

  • Mehdi Tavakoli Kazeruni Department of Art and Architecture, Shi.C., Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran. Author

Keywords:

Vertical growth, City identity, Environmental psychology, Functional quality, High-rise, Residential environment.

Abstract

The concept of the quality of the residential environment is the social, cultural, economic, physical-spatial conditions of the environment that indicate the level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction of the citizens with the environment. The quality of the residential environment is not only a quantitative and technical concept, but it is related to qualitative concepts such as quality of life, diversity of social spaces, social activities, spatial dependencies and city identity. Considering the growth of population and urbanization and the strategy of high-rise construction and vertical growth at the present time, it is possible to explain the components such as social supervision, unity and social order, attendance, social participation, etc. as the most important effective components of high-rise buildings on the quality of the residential environment. It improved the quality of social relations and increased the level of satisfaction with residential environments. In the current research, after extracting the above components in the form of the Delphi method using a questionnaire tool and based on the content analysis of the texts obtained from the library method and the opinions of scholars, in order to improve the high-ranking components and increase their impact on the quality of the residential environment. Strategic and executive solutions have been explained.

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2025-10-10

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