Space Syntax

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Description

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. 

See our newest results these publications:

Voxel Graph Operators

Voxel-Based Spatial Ergonomics Research

Evaluating Spatial Configurations as to their [Adaptive] Reuse Potential

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. 

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  • Richard Schaffranek

    Hallo,

    Nice to see more people engaging with graphs and space syntax in Grasshopper. Did you know of http://www.decodingspaces.de/ ?

    What kind of data is the Graph structure, is it compatible to SpiderWeb? 

    Richard

    Aug 14, 2013

  • Pirouz Nourian

    Hello Richard,

    In fact I have learned a lot from your plugin and your teachings online (a formal acknowledgement will follow :)). The first time I started to do something with graphs in GH I noticed the output of the proximity component, which is exactly a datatree indicating the indices of the connected nodes. It was a wise choice to use the same format for the graphs. So, it is perfectly compatible with Spiderweb; and it is part of the plan to introduce these in connection with Spiderweb. I have checked the decoding space components, but I had difficulties connecting to their technical approach as they are using a different data type for graphs, which is not readable from outside. 

    Aug 14, 2013

  • djordje

    Very interesting Pirouz,
    Hope you will post some example files too.

    Aug 14, 2013

  • Daniel Hambleton

    Great group! I've been quite interested in this topic for some time.

    Although not directly GH related, I'm developing a Gibsonian crowd simulation engine - you can check out the alpha version here. Would be great to exchange some ideas!

    Aug 14, 2013

  • Petar Pejic

    Any news on the release date?

    Sep 22, 2013

  • Pirouz Nourian

    We are planning to release a test version by the end of this week.

    Sep 30, 2013

  • Elbert Choquehuanca

    expected wing

    Oct 4, 2013

  • Petar Pejic

    Hi, any news on release date? It would be nice if you could include for example a sample video like you did your other plug in, I find it very useful. 

    Oct 7, 2013

  • Pirouz Nourian

    Hi all,

    All components are ready. We are preparing an example file and a short video. I hope we can do all this in a couple of hours/days :).

    Oct 7, 2013

  • reza salehi

    good

    thank u pirouz

    Oct 8, 2013

  • Pirouz Nourian

    Hi all, 

    Thanks for your support. Sorry for not doing as promised. All components are ready as VB scripts but we need to wrap them into a GHA. We are struggling a bit with the new way of making a GHA (grasshopper add-on file) due to a few minor issues. So, I can't promise a day now; but in principle, it should not take more than a couple of days. 

    Oct 11, 2013

  • Elbert Choquehuanca

    still waiting,

    Thanks.

    Oct 17, 2013