Space Syntax

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Comment by maryam on March 22, 2017 at 8:41am

I e-mailed to Dr. Tasos Varoudis and Dr answer to me:

This examples were done with a custom software, not available in public.

You need to use your own scripting to do something like this at the moment.

I think it is an upgraded version of the Depthmap software. Did you notice the two-dimensional to three-dimensional version upgrade it?

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on March 22, 2017 at 5:37am

Hi Maryam; Happy Nowruz

I think it is done in GH by Dr. Tasos Varoudis @UCL. That is all I know. I don't know if their app is available. If you want to do visibility studies I'd suggest using SpiderWeb. 

Comment by maryam on March 22, 2017 at 2:48am

Hi Pirooz

Happy New Year

This Picture attached, refer to an article, published in the Journal of Space Syntax

This article refers to software. that is as far as I know is currently not available

?Did you know that & time of publication the software

I am grateful that I guide

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on February 13, 2017 at 3:42am

send a simple version of your file please. I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do.  

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on February 13, 2017 at 3:17am

it could also be a "text" parameter container.

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on February 13, 2017 at 3:17am

then it is an extracted "number" parameter containing real numbers (e.g. 2.34, 10.0, etc.). Use a "number" parameter instead. 

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on February 13, 2017 at 2:22am

Hello Seghier, I would suggest using the names instead of icons (this is a GH option). This is a standard parameter container from GH (not from our plugin). You can (most probably) find it in the first menu Parameters.  

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on February 9, 2017 at 2:44am

C_Disk_PZN_Corrected.gh

hi Andreas Krigoltoi; thanks for your kind words; I am happy to hear the tools are useful. Re baking (instantiating) visualization results, my new approach is to get Mesh outputs from diagram components. That is my intention but work pressure makes it difficult to realize it... There is one component I have posted before here that puts out meshes for bubble diagrams. The eventual solution (which I am working on these days) is to open source the analytic algorithms and let people develop their own visualization tools on top of them. Keep in touch. 

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on February 9, 2017 at 2:37am

Hi all, as I find the question of  Tanya relevant for all, I post my answer here:

I think this can make a good didactic discussion for our users. 

 

My short answer is that Space Syntax or any other theory based on computational models cannot predict the behaviour of individual people. Humans are creative and their actions cannot be explained solely based on cause-effect (stimulus-response) mechanisms. In other words, people cannot be reduced to ‘causal systems’. That said, social sciences can be helpful in studying the likelihood of social behaviours. In this particular case, the underlying assumption of Space Syntax is that any environment (the network of spaces in a building or in a city) has an effect on human behaviour in terms of such things as mobility and social interactions. Space Syntax is an umbrella term for a range of mathematical constructs that seek to relate the structural (graph theoretical) properties of space to human mobility and social interactions. The effect of spatial configuration on human (social/average individual) behaviour cannot be deterministic. In any field studying human behaviour one needs to consider many factors that can nudge human behaviour in certain directions. Anyway, long story short, Space Syntax models often use the so-called centrality models to study the graphical (network) structure of space and check the ‘potential’ of a spatial configuration for conducting human movement flows or finding gradients of privacy-community, chances of social encounter etc.

 

I would prefer to separate two things:

 

• Designing a spatial configuration based on an abstract network of spatial relations (see e.g. chapter 3 & 4 in my PhD:  http://abe.tudelft.nl/index.php/faculty-architecture/issue/view/474 and http://www.sss9.or.kr/paperpdf/mmd/sss9_2013_ref048_p.pdf)
• Analysing the network of spatial relations (while designing a building or for an existing building)

As for the computational design process based on a network construct, I am working on an alternative method for producing spatial layouts that is based on a voxel-grid of space (still a work-in-progress)

Please feel free to share your insights and opinions. 

 

Comment by Tanya on February 5, 2017 at 4:37am

I am currently working on my thesis that seeks to design a school that is sensitive to students' mental well being and behavior. I wish to understand how Space Syntax or a computational design workflow can be used to solve such a problem in a generative design process. Can Space Syntax be used to convert intangible experiences into design tangibles?

 

So far, I have seen its use in Visibility Graphs, Convex Maps, Isovists etc. However, can such a theory drive the design process? Please guide me to examples of generative applications if any.

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