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Shape-Sensitive Configurational Descriptions of Building Plans
Rashid, Mahbub
Rashid, Mahbub
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Abstract
While the traditional graph-theoretic techniques of space syntax are
able to provide a rich description of the spatial configuration of
buildings, they are not sufficiently shape sensitive.Therefore, techniques
are proposed to describe building plans as configurations of spaces
taking into consideration the elements of shape explicitly. First, the
traditional space syntax techniques are applied to a more shapesensitive
partition of a plan in order to find out if these techniques
would reveal any interesting shape property of the plan. Following this,
a technique to characterize the spatial units of a plan is suggested
taking into consideration how surfaces become visible from these units.
Finally, a plan is described as the configuration of triangles defined by
the vertices of the shape of the plan, and triangulation is used as a
technique for a shape-sensitive description of spatial configuration.
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This is the publisher's version, which is also available electronically from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/1478-0771.10.1.33
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2012
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Rashid, M. Shape-sensitive configurational descriptions of building plans. International Journal of Architectural Computing, 2012, 10(1), 33-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/1478-0771.10.1.33