here I have a quite nice suggestion, but I don't know if it is not too high for a student. There is an approach called Space Syntax developped at the UCL which analyses spaces and circulations, especially for public spaces. Mostly in the city, but it is possible also for museums. It looks at depth maps and such. Maybe worth to look into it.
Easier than that, you could make a scheme of how spaces with different functions are connected making abstraction of the plan - just the space names in a square, or, if the form is free, a free form, and the links which show that functionally they are linked.
I would add some hierarchy into the circulation diagrams. You could simply super-impose the Private-Public diagram with the circulation diagram and will give you what routes are public and which ones are private etc. You'll understand then why there are so many different entrances ie. public entyrance, staff entrance, deliveries entrance etc. This is vital to understand how the building works. The end result should be a circulation diagram with perhaps 3 different colours of circulation.
It should be very quick exercise but I think will be very worth it.
Hi William,
ReplyDeletehere I have a quite nice suggestion, but I don't know if it is not too high for a student.
There is an approach called Space Syntax developped at the UCL which analyses spaces and circulations, especially for public spaces. Mostly in the city, but it is possible also for museums. It looks at depth maps and such. Maybe worth to look into it.
Easier than that, you could make a scheme of how spaces with different functions are connected making abstraction of the plan - just the space names in a square, or, if the form is free, a free form, and the links which show that functionally they are linked.
kind regards
Maria
Hi William:
ReplyDeleteI would add some hierarchy into the circulation diagrams. You could simply super-impose the Private-Public diagram with the circulation diagram and will give you what routes are public and which ones are private etc. You'll understand then why there are so many different entrances ie. public entyrance, staff entrance, deliveries entrance etc. This is vital to understand how the building works. The end result should be a circulation diagram with perhaps 3 different colours of circulation.
It should be very quick exercise but I think will be very worth it.
Hope this helps.
Regards,