Space Syntax

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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.

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.

Website: https://genesis-lab.dev/products/syntactic/
Location: Delft
Members: 637
Latest Activity: Mar 9

Hi, All components are ready. We are just wrapping all our VB codes into a GHA.

Discussion Forum

Bake legends/export graphs 3 Replies

Hello everyone,I just discovered space syntax and I am having a great deal of fun playing with it however, I can't seem to bake the pie chart, or the legends or anything. Any ideas how I can export…Continue

Started by Stefania Dinea. Last reply by Sabrina Morris Nov 22, 2023.

"DiskoGraphDrawing" Icon 3 Replies

Hi There, I'm using the latest version of Syntax (downloaded today) on Rhino 6. Is it correct to assume that this isn't 100% compatible with Gh on R6 at this point?The issue I am having is the first…Continue

Started by Chris Dimarco. Last reply by Mary Bliss Nov 21, 2023.

space syntax area refrence 3 Replies

HiI used your space syntax for an architectural function relation diagram, but i have a problem because there is a rule that number of points and areas should be the same, so in a situation that i…Continue

Started by maryam ma. Last reply by GabrielaSullivan Oct 23, 2023.

Gradient issue with Syntactic 6 Replies

Hi guys,I don't know what is wrong with this simple definition on space syntax...Any ideas?Domain...lists...input curves?Thanks...…Continue

Started by Andrés Utz. Last reply by Nelson Oliver Sep 20, 2023.

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Comment by zahra msvi on November 17, 2015 at 3:23am: hi... i have seen video and this plugin was amazing , i tried to do it myself but at first step it shows an error which i dont why is that happend, i ll be geatfull if someone help , i really need it for my thesis.

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Comment by Pirouz Nourian on October 5, 2015 at 10:21am: Hi Erik, sorry for late response, really hectic here... I would just turn off its preview and use native text display components of GH such as 3D tag or 2D tax with custom sizes and colors.

Comment by johnnyUtah05 on October 2, 2015 at 2:51am: Hello Pirouz,

Thank you for your prompt response. I have been finding great use for them during the diagramming of for my thesis. The component that I am using is the 'nodelinkgraph' which is returning the large text. I understand you must be quite busy so I appreciate any help. It is such a useful tool you have created!

Best,

Erik

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on October 2, 2015 at 1:19am: Hi Erik, pleased to hear that you like the tools.

Yes, I have made text size relational to the sizes of constellations. I can imagine that in some cases you might wanna change it. If you tell me which component is that I might be able to provide an adapted scripted component. As to my current busy schedule I can't promise but I'll try.

Comment by johnnyUtah05 on October 1, 2015 at 11:36am: Thanks for a great tool!

Is it possible to control the text size on any of the charts or are they set to a default value?

thank you

Comment by David Cruz on September 8, 2015 at 11:46am: Pirouz, thanks for your answer and advice and congratulations for making this exelent tool available for everybody.

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on September 8, 2015 at 11:35am: Hi David, technically you can; but methodically there is no general way of defining such goals. Space Syntax measures are analytic and neutral, they do not imply goodness. Evaluation is required for optimization and it requires a framework as to which you can associate numerical values of an analysis to qualities sought. This is all to say that there is no generic sound way of saying something like 'the more integrated spaces the better'. I don't see what would be the meaning of such a goal. And yet you should be able to justify such statements and formulate them as goals for any goal-oriented search such as the evolutionary algorithm implemented in Galapagos. For these reasons I am generally very cautious with using the term optimization. Simply put, optimization is about either minimizing or maximizing a numerical value. That is straightforward; but what is the meaning of doing such a thing is always debatable, at least in the architectural context. Having said all these, I think it might be possible to define sensible syntactic/configurational goals 'specifically' for certain projects. If you are interested in such processes, I would suggest that you ask Richard Schaffranek, the developer of SpiderWeb for guidance, he has a couple of nice examples of such processes. In short, I don't have any generic solutions; Richard might have some specific examples.

Comment by David Cruz on September 8, 2015 at 10:42am: Hello everybody, i'm doing a research on the tools available for Space Syntax analysis. i found this tool very useful for the analysis of architecture, according to integration parameters, a so on. but i have a question. since all the values obtained from the analisis are numeric values, could they be used as a fitness funtion in galapagos? and could galapagos be integrated with the space syntax tool to optimize the configuration of a Building?.
Thanks for your advice

Comment by Pirouz Nourian on September 7, 2015 at 7:10am: Hi Salma, decoding space and spider web have been developed and maintained by my friends, not me. I'm not sure if you have a problem with SYNTACTIC!? If so, could you please take a screen shot of an error message (if any)?

Comment by salma samir elesawy on September 4, 2015 at 10:50am: Hello...in space syntax analysis by spider web or decodingspace " choice and integration " these tools donot appear on windows 7 or 8 and can be used only in Mac software only , is that right or not ?