The Impact of Some Social Variables and The Internal Design on The Privacy Element of Housings in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh City

the identification of both the internal design and the privacy element of housings in Riyadh city, on a sample of 175 of the families of female students in the department of housings and home management in the faculty of education for home economics, research data were collected from field by interviews via questionnaire .The results reveal the following:

1.    Most of sample members dwell in housings of 7 to less than 15 years old, and the majority of these housings are composed of a suite annexed to villa (70.5%), also it is revealed that 44.3% of these housings combine both the traditional as well as the modern style, also it is clear that the internal spaces in it is distributed between the different daily usages. 

 
2.  There are spaces characterized by high degree of privacy and is concordant with criteria of good design, represented by a reception (male and female) and a living room.

The majority of respondents have high perception as regards to privacy criteria represented by insulation of internal and external walls and the use of reflecting glass.
The problem of inefficacy of external fences to satisfy privacy, comes on the top of current existing problems in housings of the respondents.
The internal design of housing understudy, as an independent variable, accounts for explaining 13.6% of the variance in the degree of privacy as a dependent variable.