THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURAL COMPONENTS OF RESIDENTS AND PHYSICAL ORGANIZATION OF RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENTS (CASE STUDY: ROSHDIEH NEIGHBORHOOD OF TABRIZ)

Considerable research has been conducted on the interaction between humans and the built environment performed based on the communication method and the significant relationship between the culture of the residents living in the environment and the place. The purpose of this study was the qualitative and quantitative evaluation or the method composed of the nature and quality of the relationship between the cultural components of the residents and the physical organization of the residential environments on a small scale in the Roshdieh neighborhood of Tabriz. The research method was combined approach which is a sequential exploratory design. First, the qualitative method with grounded theory trend and then the quantitative method with survey tendency and using correlation method were used. The studied community of both research methods was the participants residing in Roshdieh neighborhood of Tabriz. First, data were collected by interviews on the basis of specified questions with purposeful sampling until reaching to the saturation level of 20 interviewed residents of the neighborhood. Using qualitative data, 208 subjects of the neighborhood residents were randomly selected to assess the relationship of the question naira based on a five-point Likert scale. Pearson test and SPSS software were used for data analysis. The qualitative results indicate that the affecting factors in cultural values are the issues such as customs, beliefs, participation, respect for the rights of and interactions of individuals and in physical organizing are the issues such as deployment, communication and quality of fixed and semi-fixed elements of the environment. The results of quantitative study confirming the qualitative study revealed a significant relationship between these mentioned categories.