TY - JOUR T1 - Structural-Functional Analysis of the Rural Housing Using Sustainable Development Approach (Case Study: in Eastern Roumeshkhan County, Kuhdasht township) TT - تحلیل ساختاری- کارکردی مسکن روستایی با رویکرد توسعه پایدار (مطالعه موردی: دهستان رومشگان شرقی، شهرستان کوهدشت) JF - JHRE JO - JHRE VL - 37 IS - 162 UR - http://jhre.ir/article-1-1275-en.html Y1 - 2018 SP - 55 EP - 70 KW - Rural Housing KW - Sustainable Housing KW - Credits KW - Eastern Roumeshkhan County. N2 - Too many word “important” has been used!! Restructure the body. Last sentence started with “therefore”, a plethora of factors affect the rural housing stability level which identifying and analyzing them will be useful in rural housing future programming. The purpose of the study is the dwellings’ structural and functional conformity by considering sustainable development indicators in eastern Rumeshkhan county, Lorestan province. In the last decade, there has been a remarkable change in the housing condition of rural housing. The current study is applied in nature and descriptive-analytical in methodology as well as the fact that literature review and fieldwork used for data gathering procedure. The population of the current study is the villages that took loan from housing foundation more frequently including 10 villages of the Rumeshkhan County. In 1390 general census, the population of these villages was estimated about 2946 families. Hence, based on Cochran’s sample size formula 291 questionnaires were selected as the sample of the study. The instrument used in the current study is questionnaire, which is randomly distributed among rural population. Initially, a list of 48 items in the economic, social, environmental and physical aspects of the rural housing stock in the village of East Rumshaghan was evaluated. Therefore, to evaluate the reliability of the questionnaire estimations made based on Cronbach’s alpha which showed 0.850, 0.631, and 729 for the three sections of the questionnaire know as economic dimensions, social dimensions, and environmental dimensions respectively indicating the appropriateness of the questionnaire for the study case. Factor analysis, one sample t-test, variance, and VIKOR were used for data analysis to study the subject. The results of the study showed that 10 factors namely housing safety and security, economic, access to facilities and services, welfare and life quality, material strength in housing, satisfaction with architecture, substructures development, adaptability with natural resources, and productivity of the spaces for housing units explaining more than 0.59 percent of the indicators variances. One sample t showed that the rural housing in sample villages from theoretical variance aspect are low but have positive effects on rural housing. VIKOR results showed that Rashnudeh village with the rate of (0.04) has the highest and Mohammadabad- e Garavand with the rate of (0.56) has the lowest rank in rural housing stability among the focused villages of the study. Therefore, it can be stated that, the rural housing, which function and structure in a historical dynamism and within a higher ordered framework could satisfy the inhabitants special and situational needs and physical expansion of the villages had significant effects on the social, economic, biological, and body factors of the regions’ villages bringing about structural-functional changes in the near villages. Based on the factors mentioned above, and change in the rural housing architecture, new housing patterns were found and the villages Such as Rashnudeh, Lalvand, Bazvand-e Asl which are more closer to the city center having access to more services and starting to use strengthened materials leading to a conspicuous change in the rural environment. M3 DOI: 10.22034/37.162.55 ER -