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In this video John Peponis describes the meaning of Syntax in the Spatial Analysis of Architecture. You can watch it here.
Once design aims are stated, the analytical techniques and measures
embedded in UCL Depthmap, Taubman College Syntax-2D, KTH Place Syntax
and Spatial Positioning Tool, Figueiredo’s Mindwalk, Shpuza’s Qelize,
Georgia Tech Spatialist and Spatialist_Lines, or other similar
computational tools for spatial analysis can be used to evaluate
alternative design proposals, or to assist their further development and
refinement. The more sensitive the tool is to design geometry the more
precise and thus the more fully developed the input must be prior to
analysis and measurement.
In their present state, these tools cannot be used to generate a design proposal, except through an analysis of the spatial structure of the relevant context; for example, the connectivity of the environment of an urban site; or, the shape of a building shell as it frames the design of internal circulation. Nor can they be used to facilitate the formulation of design aims other than in general terms. It is not always clear whether they can be usefully applied to preliminary design diagrams.
I would maintain that this is not an entirely unpleasing state of affairs. The original aims of space syntax as a program of architectural research never included the replacement of design intuition or imagination by some “expert system”.
In their present state, these tools cannot be used to generate a design proposal, except through an analysis of the spatial structure of the relevant context; for example, the connectivity of the environment of an urban site; or, the shape of a building shell as it frames the design of internal circulation. Nor can they be used to facilitate the formulation of design aims other than in general terms. It is not always clear whether they can be usefully applied to preliminary design diagrams.
I would maintain that this is not an entirely unpleasing state of affairs. The original aims of space syntax as a program of architectural research never included the replacement of design intuition or imagination by some “expert system”.
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