Different ways of experiencing architecture?

A research point that I really need to look more into: how do people experience a building differently when they are in possession of it, as in a private home, vs. when it is a public facility like a workplace? Is there a difference between how people feel about a home if it is rented or owned?

Might lead to some juicy tidbits about the idea of "consuming" a building, as a big part of it is clearly about ownership.

EDIT: Found a huge, 50-page survey of studies on the effects of home ownership (vs. renting) on X. For one (this may seem obvious, but now I have tons of cited studies to back it up), homeowners are much less likely to move than renters. This alone could have an effect on community involvement and attachment to "place." A great deal of the sustainability literature on urban planning deals with the importance of place attachment, in that attachment to a particular place is highly correlated with stewardship and care of that environment.

Also, re: suburban sprawl: "One question is whether homeownership affects the areal size of urban areas, so-called sprawl. There is agreement that the primary determinant of the spatial expansion of cities is increased demand for more housing in the form of larger homes and lots (Brueckner [28]). This increase in demand is not necessarily linked with homeownership. Although owner-occupied dwellings are generally larger and have larger lots than rental units, a community of rented residential dwellings could contribute to urban sprawl. Critics of sprawl are primarily opposed to particular building types and the low density of dwellings, not to homeownership per se." So the relationship between ownership and sprawl is not tenable, but the built form raises interesting questions: A thing that might be worth critiquing LH on: by focusing the buyer's attention so much on energy and material savings, the buyer misses out on learning about other, just as important, facets of sustainability. This is a critique that could be applied to much of the high Modernist style, High Tech skyscrapers like the Commerzbank or Ken Yeang's bioclimactic skyscrapers. Built forms are as important as environmental footprint themselves, but LH certainly perpetuates the form of the individual suburban plot and the unattached single family home. Multiplied in thousands, It inevitably contributes to the unsustainable scenario of sprawl.

Regarding the environment specifically: "Homeownership is found to increase significantly the occurrence of recycling. The authors speculate that homeowners are more sensitive to environmental concerns. They also argue that homeowners are more involved in their communities at a political and social level and are therefore more likely to be knowledgeable about local environmental issues." However no causational relationship between homeownership and recycling is implied in any of the cited studies so I should be careful what I extrapolate from this.

An explanation of why homeownership influences social behavior: "Cox [46] indicates that homeownership influences social behavior through two mechanisms. First, 'interest theory' holds that homeownership alters the financial stake of households. Homeowners have a financial stake in local affairs because these affairs, whether social or political, may influence the home’s price. Second, as discussed in Section 5, homeowners are less mobile than renters and thus they are more likely to remain in a neighborhood. Undesirable changes in the neighborhood will affect the consumption value of a home. Homeowners are thusmotivated to engage in political and social activities, including community activism, to reduce the likelihood of these changes." This might argue on behalf of consumption as a way to ironically bolster sustainability because self-interest (in property values relating to environmental quality) can produce sustainable results. The ends justify the means?

So in the end, you could extrapolate that consumption through ownership of a home leads to more responsible, stewardship-like feelings. Makes sense - for instance, I would not drive a car I owned like... well, like I would a rental.