TY - JOUR
T1 - From architects’ terms to computable descriptions of spatial qualities
AU - Key, S.
AU - Gross, M. D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Architects speak of space and place using terms such as enclosure or privacy. These terms imply certain patterns of use and inhabitation. Spatial qualities in this study are the terms used to describe experiential qualities, encapsulated descriptions of the geometric configuration and their relationships to the building user. To demonstrate how architects might computationally describe various meanings of the forms that affect the building user, we compiled a list of keywords from an architectural pattern set and computed two terms based on geometry and visual perceptual relations. We present the result of an empirical test to suggest a simple computational representational framework to push the current domain knowledge to the next level utility in developing more design tools and languages.
AB - Architects speak of space and place using terms such as enclosure or privacy. These terms imply certain patterns of use and inhabitation. Spatial qualities in this study are the terms used to describe experiential qualities, encapsulated descriptions of the geometric configuration and their relationships to the building user. To demonstrate how architects might computationally describe various meanings of the forms that affect the building user, we compiled a list of keywords from an architectural pattern set and computed two terms based on geometry and visual perceptual relations. We present the result of an empirical test to suggest a simple computational representational framework to push the current domain knowledge to the next level utility in developing more design tools and languages.
KW - Computational representation
KW - architecture
KW - describing design patterns
KW - domain-specific spatial language
KW - visual spatial relations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100088577&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13875868.2020.1862125
DO - 10.1080/13875868.2020.1862125
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100088577
VL - 21
SP - 173
EP - 196
JO - Spatial Cognition and Computation
JF - Spatial Cognition and Computation
SN - 1387-5868
IS - 3
ER -