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 maryam on December 7, 2018 at 4:40am: hello , Mr Nourian
According to the upgrade of your new plug.
It 's possible to renew a teaching video to get acquainted with the functions version for us.
Thank you.

Comment by Leen Hiasat on December 5, 2018 at 6:42am: Hello Pirouz

Thank you so much for this tool I believe its going to be of great help for me in my research.

However, I have so problems in starting it, the version on this website doesn't seem to work on my Rhino 6. Even after trying to unblock it and pasting it to the components folder.

I downloaded the one on food4rhino, it worked, but its missing many components

any suggestions please?

Thank you so much

Comment by Yuki Wada on October 18, 2018 at 10:42pm: Hi Pirouz.

Your Syntactic is very exciting!

I'm having a trouble with a component 'Triangulate Mesh In All Ways'.

The error message is: '1. Solution exception: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index

The goal of my project is to allocate room boxes at points generated by space syntax without overlapping each box. The boxes don't need to kiss each other because I'll connect them with corridors using edges generated by SYNTACTIC (Does a component 'Graph Edges' work for this?).

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VveIAayRYqHDSc1rgpKWSs1n-VaXZhAM

I'm also looking forward to updates which enable point generation in 3D volume!

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on October 17, 2018 at 1:05pm: Hi Grassitect, Hi Yuki,

THanks for reporting this. I have installed Rhino 6 last week and started working on an update. Due to high education workload I cannot promise an early date but we are close to publishing updates, may be gradual updates.

Comment by Yuki Wada on October 17, 2018 at 8:12am: Hi Grassitect and Pirouz.

The plugin also doesn't work with Rhino 5 of 64bit.

It only works with rhino5 of 32bit.

Rhino6 is 64bit software. So, it may need an update to work with 64 bit systems.

Comment by Grassitect on October 16, 2018 at 10:52pm: Hey Yuki and Pirouz! Similar situation here. I have installed the plugin but it doesnt seem to be working with Rhino 6. I have also tried directly dragging the plugin into gh and the same situation continued. Heres a screen capture when opening up the test file provided in the folder.

Thank you very much!

Comment by Yuki Wada on October 12, 2018 at 3:59pm: Hi, Pirouz.

Thank you for your reply.

Syntactic doesn’t appear on grasshopper of Rhino6 though I put rha file into grasshopper components folder and rebooted.

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on October 12, 2018 at 1:47am: Hi Yuki Wada,

I installed my Rhino 6 last week. We are working on updating SYNTACTIC using Rhino 6 library. If you have gotten any error messages please post them here so we can address the bugs.

Comment by Yuki Wada on October 11, 2018 at 9:21pm: Hi, Pirouz.

I'm very interested in your SYNTACTIC components, but it doesn't seem to be compatible with grasshopper of Rhino6.

Configurbanist could be successfully installed and works well with grasshopper of Rhino6.

I don't have Rhino5 license so, is there any way to use SYNTACTIC on grasshopper of Rhino6? or could you update the component?

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on June 4, 2018 at 8:49am: Hello Dēmiurgos,

Thanks for your compliments, happy to hear it is helpful.

I could not see in the images anything wrong with attribute generation/provision. Attributes are not necessary for analyses, but only for human users to comprehend the results. It could be that you have not provided the attributes to the Justified Graph component, or that you have not provided a consistent set of attributes. I would suggest double-checking the attributes with the LoL (List of Lists) component and making sure the number of names, colors, and areas are the same and that they are all valid.

ps. There is virtually no limit to the number of nodes. I would not expect a problem of efficiency for a graph of this size on an ordinary machine. This problem is most likely caused by inconsistent attributes.

I hope this helps.