Participation, Sense of Home, and End-users’ Needs in Mass Housing

Sense of home in mass housing depends on the degree of congruity of the environment with the residents’ motivations. The congruity depends on spatial personalization achieved by end-users’ participation. In developing countries, e.g. Iran end-users’ participation in mass housing is quite challenging and critical because they are inaccessible. This paper aims at investigating the relationships between human motivations and participatory modes. A conducted overview on a number of theories and concepts on human motivation, and different methods of participation results in identifying the degree of readability of different motivations, and the association of different participatory modes in representing these motivations.