Exterior personalization of multi-unit housing (residential campus of Babylon University, 60thst. in the city of hillah…)‎

الملخص EN

Personalization refers to the marking of places, or the accretion of objects within them, and thereby the staking of claim to them.

(If it is an area, that has been marked as a territory).

Place attachment represents the bonds that people have to a specific environment, and the subsequent knowledge and values people hold for that environment.

The main goal of this research is to check if there is a statistical significant relationship between personalization and the formation of place attachment, and to increase knowledge about the complex nature of place attachment considering the dynamics of the relationship over time, space, people and context.

Also.

It is an attempt to explore how the context of a setting might relate to the attachments people form with it.

The observation and listing of architectural physical elements through doing a cross sectional study would be helpful in determining the type of relation between personalization as an independent variable and place attachment as a dependent variable.

The hypothesis suppose that much more exterior personalization of multi-unit housing would reflect the feeling of control and place attachment and vice versa.

The level and type of personalization the users would like to adapt under the influence of the suggested confounding (sub-variables) of ownership, identity, privacy and security could be detected leading to possible general design responses according to the necessary components of aesthetics physical attractiveness that satisfy people needs.