Rohan,
I think you need to say more about what constitutes a 'good' spot for
taking an image. I can think of several possibilities:
1. The centre of a space; 2. the point in a space that has the most
extensive information about other spaces; 3. the point in a space where
one first sees all of it as one enters (this is route dependent); 4. the
decision point - that is where one must choose between alternative
routes; 5. the location in space that a particular social category has
access to (a hospital ward looks different from the point of view of the
nurses base and the patients bed).... there must be others.
I am sure that syntax could be helpful in giving a more rigorous
definition of some of these, for example the measures of VGA
'clustering' say something about point 2. John Peponis at al's papers in
Env Plan B on space partitioning say a lot about 3. and we have
empirical findings about axial control value 'picking out' nurses bases
in hospital plans which may also be relevant.
Alan Penn
Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing
The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
University College London
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Hello,
I probably need to say this may be a bit of left field question. I
haven't had a lot of experience with Space Syntax but have been a member
of the list for a year of so and have always found it facinating,.
Now for the left field bit. I was wondering whether space syntax
analysis techniques for analyzing space (maybe using an isovist analysis
approach) would give me an objective or ideal location in which to take
360 degree panoramic photographs on a interior building space.
More explanation_ 360 degree photographs are where take a number of
images and join them together and then they can be viewed using QTVR
program so that you can look around the whole room.
Why taking photographs?_ research on Juvenile Justice Detention Centres
where have detainees look around the living areas in the units of
different facilities and answer questions about them.
What are the facilities like_ large main living area with hallways and
other rooms off this area. Most of the adjacent areas do not have doors.
Why do I think space syntax may help? I thought it may be able to be
used to identify an objective procedure for locating the camera which
had some theoretical basis, and would identify the space from which the
most relevant areas in the space could be represented.
Thanks Rohan
Rohan Lulham
Ph.D. Student
Environment, Behaviour and Society Research Group
Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney
Australia
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