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 Dēmiurgos on June 2, 2018 at 1:53am: Pirouz. Good day. First of all, thanks a lot for this plug in. It has been wonderful to work with this tool in order to get a deeper understanding about spatial configuration.

I'm having a problem with an algorithm Find attached the images.

I'm trying to make an evaluation of a list of spaces for a project, but it doesn't works as in your example file. I have the attributes in the enlisted spaces and the space syuntax indicators, but not in the depth graph. Is there a limit of enlisted spaces and connections between them?

Thank you for your attention and i'll be vigilant to your answer.

SYNTACTIC_NewVersion_sample_2.7.3dm SYNTAZTIC_NewVersion_PublicRelease_0.2.7.gh

Greetings from mictlan.

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on May 2, 2018 at 2:44am: https://www.slideshare.net/PirouzNourian/geo1004-lecture-1topologya...

Comment by Rana Rizi on April 25, 2018 at 10:40am: Hi all, Space syntax has not added on top of my grasshopper page, even though I already am using the containing example o that.

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on April 2, 2018 at 6:27am: Essential Means for Urban Computing: Specification of Web-Based Computing Platforms for Urban Planning, a Hitchhiker’s Guide

https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/1299

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on March 28, 2018 at 4:23am: Hi Morris, when the algorithm does not succeed in putting the coins together as instructed, e.g. when a 2 Euros' coin does not fit in the middle of 4 5 cents' coins; a point might go to infinity and disappear. To avoid this you can try lowering the attraction and repulsion coefficients of the Force-Directed Graph Drawing algorithm (Coin-Graph).

Comment by Xingxin HE on March 27, 2018 at 10:42am: Hi everyone,

Does anybody know what occurs this error?

"1. Solution exception:Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

Although there is an error, but the graph can pop out .

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on March 17, 2018 at 3:31pm: Hello zaidoon,

Thanks for your compliments. We have quite a few updates to make but the educational workload is high so I cannot promise a date. I hope we'll be able to release a new version within a couple of months, hopefully earlier.

Comment by zaidoon on March 10, 2018 at 5:16pm: Thank you for the amazing work Pirouz!

I have played around with space syntax while I was in Uni. Now that I have graduated, I have implemented as a part of my design process.

is there an ETA on the next update? Im so excited for it.

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on March 4, 2018 at 7:32am: Hi Jose Carlos Rojas, thanks for your compliments. The REL-chart (a.k.a. From-To chart) is included in the new version, which is being slow-cooked in our kitchen :). The rectangular cell packing tools (as we have indicated in the released version) are only place holders. We will need quite some time to develop them further as robust algorithms. We are re-writing the whole package and mostly focused on the very beginning, that is focused on forming the connectivity graph itself. I wish we had a ready-made solution for the rectangular drawing right now, but we do not have it correctly implemented yet . You can perhaps check the references of our paper on how to do this. It is not impossible but rather difficult. For the time being, I myself would do the last part of the process (rectangular configuration) by hand in 3D. I hope that helps.