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.

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: 637
Latest Activity: Jun 26

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 Richard Schaffranek on February 12, 2015 at 10:40am: Hallo Leonardo,

I might not be able to suggest anything but I would like to point out two things:

Syntactic is using force-directed graph drawing (as fare as I know). This comes with certain restraint:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force-directed_graph_drawing

Secondly it might be that you graph ain't planar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planarity_testing

Maybe this helps.

Comment by Leonardo Roli on February 12, 2015 at 9:53am: Hi Pirouz, I'm using Space Syntax to configure the functional layout in an urban design project.
I've noticed that with a quite high range of functions and especially when all this elements have too many interconnections between them, it became really hard to obtain a clear configuration. For ex in my case I've got 13 functions with more than 30 connections, but the result is incomprehensible, as you can see from the image.

I've tried to search a previous conversation about this issue, but I didn't found a solution. Am I making some mistakes or do I pretend to use too many imputs? Do you have any suggestion?

Thank you!!

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on January 27, 2015 at 2:10am: Thanks Rafat for your compliments. I would love to be a professor but I'm just "a simple kid with a simple passion for simple things" :) technically still a PhD researcher/instructor! Hope the new version is running smoothly.

Comment by Rafat Ahmed on January 25, 2015 at 9:09am: Big Thanks Prof Nourian, its really very useful, and am one of those who is waiting it.

Really i appreciate your Time & Effort.

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on January 25, 2015 at 8:58am: Hi all, the new version is now available at: https://sites.google.com/site/pirouznourian/syntactic-design?pli=1

There might be a little issue with the visualization of disks (they might have been turned into dark colors); haven't figured out yet what it is. But there is a simple solution for the time being: zoom on your work from your perspective view-port and change the name of this view port to TOP.

Apart from this, make sure you read the notes on the new components. One of them is just a dummy place holder.

Comment by Mathias s n on January 25, 2015 at 3:35am: Hi, it says download link is down ..

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on January 21, 2015 at 10:38am: Hi Tata, I made some last changes to the latest version on Sunday, it's basically ready but I need a few more hours to rebuild the assembly and publish. Soon...

Comment by Tata fontes on January 21, 2015 at 6:30am: Hi Pirouz! Any news on the new version?

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on January 5, 2015 at 2:44am: Hi Tata, thanks for your kind words. I just need a few hours free to finalize a new version. This week is quite hectic, hopefully next week I will share the new version.