Pragmatism and Spatial Layout Design

2001 ◽  
pp. 189-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L. Epstein ◽  
Bernard Moulin ◽  
Walid Chaker ◽  
Janice Glasgow ◽  
Jeremi Gancet
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Layout ◽  
Layout Design

Automated assessment of architectural spatial layout configurations using fuzzy logic

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ezzeldin ◽  
Ayman Assem ◽  
Sherif Abdelmohsen
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Spatial Layout ◽  
Layout Design ◽  
Spatial Uncertainty ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Automated Assessment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Spatial Entities

PurposeConventional approaches of evaluating spatial layout configurations typically involved universal understandings of aspects like connectivity, proximity and visibility, while possibly discarding both partially true solutions and ranges of parameters affecting detailed spatial relations. With the growing need to address spatial uncertainty and ambiguity, the incorporation of methods that embrace soft qualities in design is becoming increasingly significant in spatial layout planning.Design/methodology/approachThe authors introduce a fuzzy-based approach for the automated assessment of architectural spatial layout configurations while addressing ambiguity in layout design. The authors evaluate soft interdependent design qualities like connectedness, enclosure and spaciousness to satisfy multiple mutually inclusive criteria and account for all logical solutions without discarding likely or less likely solutions. The authors analyze spatial entities, parameters and relations and identify rulesets for logical configurations using linguistic variables, fuzzy sets, membership functions and descriptive rule blocks. As a case study, the authors use grasshopper and fuzzyTECH to represent four pilot layout alternates with varying attributes and a case study focusing on one specific spatial criterion.FindingsMultiple complex and nuanced spatial relations were inferred by evaluating spatial outputs and their inherent discrepancies and correlations, thus confirming the assumption that fuzzy-based systems could potentially satisfy multiple mutually inclusive criteria and account for exhaustive logical solutions without discarding preferable, likely or less likely solutions.Originality/valueMost precedent approaches focus on spatial layout design from an occupancy-centered perspective, where occupancy patterns and possibilities are identified in loosely defined spaces or behavioral usage patterns. The added value in this paper involves including a wide array of spatial inputs to describe soft spatial qualities using nuanced rule-based descriptors.

scholarly journals The Impact of Spatial Layout Design on the Pedestrian Movement during Panic Situation: Pedestrian Survival Prediction

2019 ◽  
Vol 1201 ◽  
pp. 012066
Author(s):  
Najihah Ibrahim ◽  
Fadratul Hafinaz Hassan ◽  
Ahmad Sufril Azlan Mohamed ◽  
Ahamad Tajudin Khader
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Layout ◽  
Layout Design ◽  
Survival Prediction ◽  
Pedestrian Movement ◽  
The Impact

The Research on the Design Method of Urban Metro Viaduct and the Landscape along the Route

2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 725-728
Author(s):  
Jing Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Design Method ◽  
Spatial Layout ◽  
Layout Design ◽  
Static Properties ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
Surrounding Landscape ◽  
Design And Construction

The design and construction of the viaduct route of the urban metro have a big influence on the urban spatial layout. As a kind of landscape structures with both dynamic and static properties, it brings not only convenient transportation but also the whole cityscapes change. This article aims to solve the effect on the urban spatial environment and the crowd around through the research on the design method of metro viaduct bridge modeling, researching the layout design of surrounding landscape along the viaduct, rebuilding the cityscape and cultural axis and exploring the method of solving the contradiction and conflicts in the process of city and metro construction.

scholarly journals Survey Analysis of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Laboratory towards Featured Research Laboratory

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 580-589
Author(s):  
Harry Budiharjo Sulistyarso ◽  
Dyah Ratnaningsih ◽  
Joko Pamungkas ◽  
Indah Widiyaningsih ◽  
Salma Azizah
Keyword(s):  
Enhanced Oil Recovery ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Spatial Layout ◽  
Layout Design ◽  
Petroleum Engineering ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Survey Analysis

The EOR Research Laboratory is a laboratory that was independently pioneered by the Department of Petroleum Engineering UPN "Veteran" Yogyakarta. The EOR Research Laboratory needs to be improved especially for the existing spatial layout to support the ongoing and future research. This Institutional Research will cover the planning process of spatial layout design, spatial layout realization, internal and external EOR Research Laboratory socialization, and at the end of the study, effective and efficient governance will be applied to adapt to the current pandemic conditions. The method used in this research is quantitative in the form of socialization, questionnaires, and survey analysis to find out how EOR Laboratory is well known among students. This research is expected to be able to introduce the EOR Research Laboratory in a wider range and carrying out sustainable research in the future so that it will support the planning of the laboratory to be the Leading EOR Research Laboratory at the Department of Petroleum Engineering, UPN "Veteran" Yogyakarta.

scholarly journals Wind Power Generation Utilizing a Special Buildings Layout Design to Enhance the Wind Speed

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
Salloom A. Al-Juboori ◽  
Rasha Alrawashdeh
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Average Power ◽  
Spatial Layout ◽  
Layout Design ◽  
Wind Power Generation ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Building Layout ◽  
Twin Buildings ◽  
Consumption Demand

There is a high growing interest for the use of wind power utilizing the building's layout design. The main objective of this work is to accelerate the wind speed before reaching the turbines by using spatial design of twin's buildings; this will generate more electric power. The variables which are affecting the wind speed directed to turbines are the angle between the twin buildings, the height and the length of buildings. The results have shown that the wind speed was accelerated in the intervening space between the buildings irrespective of the distance between the walls of adjacent buildings. Nine wind turbines were installed in three rows and three columns on the wall between the two buildings to generate the electricity. These turbines were located at the top of the wall to face higher wind speed because wind speed depends on height. Also the results showed that the wind speed was accelerated by about five times for the building layout design of the present study; while the generated power was about 125 times in comparison with the buildings do not have a spatial layout design (i.e. they do not enclose an angle between them). Finally the average power generated for the present work buildings dimensions with normal consumption of electricity will cover about 13% of the total normal consumption demand of the buildings (the power generated of the present work buildings layout design is about 0.23 GWh/year).

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