Visualising the structure of architectural open spaces based on shape analysis

TL;DR

This paper introduces a method using 2D shape descriptors and visibility measures to visualize and analyze the complex structure of architectural open spaces objectively and quantitatively.

Contribution

It applies well-known shape descriptors and visibility metrics to provide a simple, objective, and quantifiable visualization approach for architectural open spaces.

Findings

Shape descriptors like convexity and skeleton effectively characterize open space structure.

Visibility measures such as obstacle distance enhance shape analysis.

The approach enables understanding complex open spaces quantitatively.

Abstract

This paper proposes the application of some well known two-dimensional geometrical shape descriptors for the visualisation of the structure of architectural open spaces. The paper demonstrates the use of visibility measures such as distance to obstacles and amount of visible space to calculate shape descriptors such as convexity and skeleton of the open space. The aim of the paper is to indicate a simple, objective and quantifiable approach to understand the structure of open spaces otherwise impossible due to the complex construction of built structures.