Space Syntax

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Space Syntax is a theory of architecture and built environment that seeks to explain the effect of spatial configurations on behavioral patterns of people. SYNTACTIC tools bring Space Syntax theory into parametric design workflows. More information on syntactic design methodology:

My PhD dissertation (see chapters 3 & 4)

Designing with Space Syntax

Syntactic Design Methodology

For more information, videos, news and updates you can visit the following website.

See a video demo-tutorial here.

The plugin is available for download here: https://genesis-lab.dev/products/syntactic/

This plugin is completely compatible with SpiderWeb for Grasshopper and we hereby thank Richard Schaffranek for all we have learned from this extremely useful plugin.

NEW VERSION WAS RELEASED ON JANUARY 25, 2015.

See our newest results these publications:

Voxel Graph Operators

Voxel-Based Spatial Ergonomics Research

Evaluating Spatial Configurations as to their [Adaptive] Reuse Potential

UPDATE: Genesis Lab [webpage][website] is to modernize, open-source, and develop the toolkit starting in December 2021. Stay tuned for updates through my YouTube Channel and ResearchGate.

Website: https://genesis-lab.dev/products/syntactic/
Location: Delft
Members: 638
Latest Activity: Dec 7

Hi, All components are ready. We are just wrapping all our VB codes into a GHA.

Discussion Forum

Bake legends/export graphs 3 Replies

Hello everyone,I just discovered space syntax and I am having a great deal of fun playing with it however, I can't seem to bake the pie chart, or the legends or anything. Any ideas how I can export…Continue

Started by Stefania Dinea. Last reply by Sabrina Morris Nov 22, 2023.

"DiskoGraphDrawing" Icon 3 Replies

Hi There, I'm using the latest version of Syntax (downloaded today) on Rhino 6. Is it correct to assume that this isn't 100% compatible with Gh on R6 at this point?The issue I am having is the first…Continue

Started by Chris Dimarco. Last reply by Mary Bliss Nov 21, 2023.

space syntax area refrence 3 Replies

HiI used your space syntax for an architectural function relation diagram, but i have a problem because there is a rule that number of points and areas should be the same, so in a situation that i…Continue

Started by maryam ma. Last reply by GabrielaSullivan Oct 23, 2023.

Gradient issue with Syntactic 6 Replies

Hi guys,I don't know what is wrong with this simple definition on space syntax...Any ideas?Domain...lists...input curves?Thanks...…Continue

Started by Andrés Utz. Last reply by Nelson Oliver Sep 20, 2023.

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Comment by Pirouz Nourian on May 29, 2024 at 7:07am: Hi Evereyone, If you want to see our current works take a look at this paper published in Nature Scientific Reports and our website; ideas for open-sourcing SYNTACTIC and extensions are always welcome:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pirouz-nourian-71b10427_equicity-gam...

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on February 27, 2023 at 7:17am: Hi Fahad,

Thanks for your kind words! I honestly don't see any problem with either of the pictures and don't understand what you mean by linearly. I can suggest to carefully redraw a constellation of points and lines (simple lines, not curves) and then select the whole bunch of points separately and feed them into the points input of the NodeGraph component and then select the whole bunch of lines and feed them into the lines input (for that it might be handy to use an empty curve container). I hope this helps.

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on February 27, 2023 at 3:35am: hello Fahad,

Can you please explain what you mean by a linear sequence of nodes? Are you referring to a map or graph drawing or grasshopper nodes?

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on October 6, 2022 at 3:36pm: Hello Kim, this component guesses an average size for the presentation of the labels; I can see that the size is too big so the smart procedure is over-engineered. Anyhow, you can turn off the preview of this component and use a controllable tex3D component to draw labels with an arbitrary size, but for doing that you need to create the labels, e.g. by using a Series component (provide the number of nodes by using a List Length component to the Series).

Comment by Kim Ricafort on October 6, 2022 at 7:17am: Hello everyone!

I just have a question on NodeLinkGraph component. Just wondering if anyone knows how to reduce the size of the text of the points? I worked fine on the first diagram, but now it's too big to even be legible.

I need it quite urgently.

Thanks a lot!

Cheers,

Kim

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on February 16, 2022 at 1:07am: Hi Eman Baadullah, good question! The answer is rather long; you can have a look at our new open-source approach in the course Spatial Computing : we are using a Multi Agent System to grow the parts of the building in 3D based on voxels. We also have a new open source process in Python for forming bubble diagrams in 3D that matches this process in VectoRelax (Graph Relaxation). I hope this helps.

Comment by Samane on February 5, 2022 at 8:56am: https://genesis-lab.dev/products/syntactic/

Comment by worawit hansombu on February 4, 2022 at 11:27am

Hi I'm a student from Thailand I want to download this but I can't download 
it because my Gmail doesn't have access. And I have asked for permission many times. 
please help me
Gmail:worawitjob.2542@gmail.com
thank you.

Comment by Eman Baadullah on January 29, 2022 at 2:53am: Is there any way to convert the bubble diagram to a floor plan and control the shape of the rooms or areas?