Graph-analytic models and space syntax tools for planning structure characterization

Purpose: The aim of the work is to identify the similarity and difference between three layouts created by the same technical specifications in order to study the design parameters, which may be inaccessible to the designer without the syntactic analysis.

Methodology/approach: Different approaches are considered in relation to space as an integral structure. Entropy and integration are used for the syntactic analysis, and j-graph is used for the stepwise depth analysis. Investigated are different works, and the precise mathematical tools for the analysis of the planning structure are chosen. The paper proposes the criteria evaluation of the effectiveness of each planning structure. A graph-analytic model is created.

Research findings: The method of parsing is explained in detail, with the selection of tools and spatial values that are appropriate for the objects in question. Criteria and conditions for evaluating the planning structure effectiveness are described. A further vector of work is outlined and the potential of syntactic analysis as a method of pre-project evaluation of work is shown.

Originality: The paper proposes the criteria evaluation of the planning structure effectiveness. A graph-analytic model is created. 

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