Assessment of Residents’ Satisfaction with the Architectural Quality of Mehr Housing in the New City of Sahand (Case Study: Mehr Housing Complex Al-Zahra)

The measurement of residential satisfaction is one of the indicators of the quality of the residential environment and is one of the main topics of interest to researchers in architecture and urban planning studies. The purpose of this research is to investigate and evaluate the satisfaction of residents of Mehr housing in terms of architectural quality. The current research method was descriptive-analytical and data collection was done in the form of survey and library studies. The statistical population of the research includes 25394 residents of Mehr Sahand housing, of which 378 people were selected as a sample to distribute the questionnaire using the Cochran sampling method. Face validity was used for validity of questions and Cronbach's alpha was used for reliability. For data analysis, structural equation method with Spss and Amos software was used. The results showed that according to the second-order factor analysis, the factor loadings of all architectural quality factors on the satisfaction level of residents of Mehr residence are greater than 0.4 and are significant at the 99% probability level. The results of the research showed that the greatest effects were related to physical-functional factors with a factor load (0.75), followed by socio-semantic factors with a factor load (0.69) and structural-spatial quality with a factor load (0.61). and environmental quality with factor load (0.55). As a result, four architectural quality factors have been effective in the residents' satisfaction with Mehr Shahr Sahand housing, and they have a direct and meaningful relationship with each other.