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The Space Syntax Laboratory’s expertise lies in developing robust methods of analysis for studying the built environment as a physical entity.
The Laboratory accomplishes this by uniquely combining the creation of software for spatial network analysis with quantifiable data on observed function and social network analysis, so that metric properties of space can be analysed in relation to social and economic measures.
Space syntax methods can predict the effects of spatial interventions on aspects of social, organisational and economic performance in existing built environments and new urban areas.
Selected publications
Read on for selected publications by researchers in the Space Syntax Lab, and follow the link to their IRIS profiles to see more.
Space and Society in Buildings
- Dr Sam Griffiths
- Griffiths, Sam (2021 in press). Writing the materiality of the past: cities and the architectural topography of historical imagination. London; New York: Routledge.
- Griffiths, Sam & Laura Vaughan (2020). 'Mapping spatial cultures: contributions of space syntax to research in the urban history of the nineteenth-century city.' Urban History 47.3: 488-511.
- Griffiths, Sam & Alexander Von Lünen (2016). Spatial cultures: Towards a new social morphology of cities past and present. doi:10.4324/9781315610269
- Dr Kayvan Karimi
- Shen, Y., & Karimi, K. (2018). Urban evolution as a spatio-functional interaction process: the case of central Shanghai. Journal of Urban Design. doi:10.1080/13574809.2017.1337496
- Ruiz-Apilánez, B., Karimi, K., García-Camacha, I., & Martín, R. (2017). 'Shared space streets: design, user perception and performance.' URBAN DESIGN International. doi:10.1057/s41289-016-0036-2
- Karimi, K. (2017). 'Space syntax: consolidation and transformation of an urban research field.' Journal of Urban Design, 23 (1), 1-4. doi:10.1080/13574809.2018.1403177
- Professor Sophia Psarra
- Psarra, S. (2019). The Production Sites of Architecture. Routledge.
- Psarra, S. (2018). The Venice Variations. UCL Press. doi:10.14324/111.9781787352391
- Psarra, S. (2009). Architecture and narrative-the formation of space and cultural meaning. Routledge.
- Dr Kerstin Sailer
- Pachilova, R., & Sailer, K. (2020). 'Providing care quality by design: a new measure to assess hospital ward layouts'. The Journal of Architecture, 25 (2), 186-202. doi:10.1080/13602365.2020.1733802
- Sailer, K. (2018). 'Corridors, classrooms, classification – The impact of school layout on pedagogy and social behaviours.' In H. M. Tse, H. Daniels, A. Stables, S. Cox (Eds.), Designing buildings for the future of schooling: Contemporary visions for education (pp. 87-111). Routledge.
- Sailer, K., & McCulloh, I. (2012). 'Social networks and spatial configuration-How office layouts drive social interaction.' Social Networks, 34 (1), 47-58. doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2011.05.005
- Professor Laura Vaughan
- Vaughan, L. (2018). Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography. London: UCL Press.
- Vaughan, L., Ed. (2015). Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street. London: UCL Press. doi:10.14324/111.9781910634134
- Vaughan, L., Ed. (2007) 'The spatial syntax of urban segregation’ Progress in Planning 67 (3), 199-294
Architectural Computation, Machine Intelligence and Virtual Reality - Extended Reality in Architecture
- Ava Fatah gen Schieck
- Hamed S. Alavi, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Mikael Wiberg, Denis Lalanne, Peter Dalsgaard, Ava Fatah gen Schieck, and Yvonne Rogers. (2019). 'Introduction to Human-Building Interaction (HBI): Interfacing HCI with Architecture and Urban Design.' ACM TOCHI Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 26, 2, Article 6 (2019), 10 pages. doi:10.1145/3309714
- Afonso, A., & Fatah gen. Schieck, A. (2019). 'Play in the smart city context: exploring interactional, bodily, social and spatial aspects of situated media interfaces.' Behaviour & Information Technology. doi:10.1080/0144929X.2019.1693630
- Fatah gen Schieck, A. (2009). 'Towards an integrated architectural media space: the urban screen as a socialising platform.' In S. McQuire, M. Martin, & S. Niederer (Eds.), Urban Screens Reader, 243-260. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.
- Professor Sean Hanna
- Hanna, S. (2020). 'Data in Design Practice.' In R. Sheil, S. Hanna, M. Ramsgaard Thomsen, M. Tamke (Eds.), Design Transactions: Rethinking Information Modelling for a New Material Age. UCL Press.
- Hanna, S. (2020). 'Random walks in urban graphs: A minimal model of movement.' Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 0, 1-15. doi:10.1177/2399808320946766
- Zhuang, X., & Hanna, S. (2020). 'Space Frame Optimisation with Spectral Clustering.' International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing, 10 (4), 507-512. doi:10.18178/ijmlc.2020.10.4.965
- Professor Alan Penn
- Charalambous, E., Hanna, S., & Phttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/enn, A. (2021). 'Aha! I know where I am: the contribution of visuospatial cues to reorientation in urban environments.' Spatial Cognition and Computation. doi:10.1080/13875868.2020.1865359
- Engin, Z., van Dijk, J., Lan, T., Longley, P. A., Treleaven, P., Batty, M., & Penn, A. (2019). 'Data-driven urban management: Mapping the landscape.' Journal of Urban Management. doi:10.1016/j.jum.2019.12.001
- Penn, A. R., Pinter-Wollman, N., Theraulaz, G., & Fiore, S. M. (2018). 'Interdisciplinary approaches for uncovering the impacts of architecture on collective behaviour.' Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences. doi:10.1098/rstb.2017.0232
- Dr Tasos Varoudis
- Varoudis T., Penn A., (2020) 'Spectral Clustering and Integration: The inner dynamics of computational geometry and spatial morphology', Formal Methods in Architecture, Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation, Sara Eloy, David Leite Viana, Franklim Morais, Jorge Vieira Vaz (Eds), Springer.
- Varoudis T., Swenson A., Kirkton S. and Waters J., (2018) Exploring nest structures of acorn dwelling ants with X-ray microtomography and surface-based three-dimensional visibility graph analysis. 373. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
- Varoudis T., Penn A., (2015), ‘Visibility, Accessibility and Beyond: Next Generation Visibility Graph Analysis’, In K. Karimi, L. Vaughan, K. Sailer, G. Palaiologou, & T. Bolton (Eds.), The Proceedings of the 10th International Space Syntax Symposium. London, UK.
