Impact of In-between Spaces on Residential Environment Quality A Case Study on Public Housing in Kerman

Decreasing qualitative aspects of residential environments is a real problem in recent public housing of kerman. thisarticle is concentrated on surveying the impact of in-between spaces on residential environments quality (req), to evaluatedifferent kinds of it and to determine interrelation of two main components: residents' individual characteristics andcharacteristics of in-between spaces. levels ofin-between spaces include empirical-aesthetic, performance and environmental characteristics to determine degreesof residents' satisfaction (rsat). eighteen selected components of in-between spaces quality (isq) assess the rsatdegrees in three residential environments of kerman. needed data obtained from structured interviews with residents andobservation checklists. a direct relationship found between rsat and isq in all three surveyed residential environments.the req index is highly and positively correlated with satisfaction of the three levels of in-between spaces and residents'individual characteristics such as ownership and residential period.