Dear List,
We would like to bring the following workshop to your attention:
Generative Syntax in Architecture and Urban Design
by Richard Schaffranek (Vienna University of Technology), Pirouz
Nourian (TU Delft)
Abstract: There are a few theories that describe and explain the role
of spatial arrangement on the social interactions of people in built
environments, best known of which is called Space Syntax. The term
syntax, taken from linguistics, here refers to the [spatial] structure
of the whole, as opposed to morphology, which looks at the qualities
of individual items. Using these theories, we can analyze existing
spatial configurations and in a way measure their socio-spatial
performance. However, theories and methods for systematically
generating spatial arrangements of certain properties are rare or not
put into practice. Combining analytic theories (mostly based on graph
theory) with the generation of geometry is at the core of the
workshop. In this workshop, we will introduce computational
methodologies that can help in generating spaces with known syntactic
properties. Three toolkits and methodologies will be introduced:
SpiderWeb, Syntactic and Configurbanist.
You can also visit the Workshop Page for further details:
http://www.gbl.tuwien.ac.at/Archiv/digital.html?name=AAG2014
The workshop will be held as part of the Conference "Advances of
Architectural Geometry 2014" at the UCL from 18 - 21 (20,21 workshops)
of September. It is possible to register for the Workshops independent
of the conference.
To do so please follow this link:
http://www.architecturalgeometry.org/aag14/?page_id=554
Best regards
Pirouz Nourian
Richard Schaffranek
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