v1.2, June 21, 2004 While experiential qualities of rectangular architectural spaces can be effectively predicted from properties like room proportions or area (Franz, von der Heyde, & Bülthoff, 2003), these factors from normative architectural knowledge obviously cannot be directly transfered on open-plan indoor spaces. Phenomenologically as well as in empirical aesthetics, nontrivial forms ar...

In a series of exploratory experiments we investigated interrelations between structure and shape of architectural indoor spaces on the one hand, and affective experience and navigation behaviour on the other hand. For this, isovist-based descriptions of 16 virtual indoor scenes were correlated with behavioural data from the experimental tasks. For all tasks-two active navigation tasks and an i...

Two experiments are presented studying interrelations between spatial properties of environments and both experience and spatial behavior. In order to systematically study such interrelations, a generic description of space is required that provides comparability between arbitrarily shaped environments and captures behaviorally relevant properties of space. In this study the suitability of isov...

While the community of Australian planning professionals is familiar with identification, interpretation and application heritage conservation areas, this not a concept that to general public. Yet, none official publications issued by New South Wales state authorities provide definition purpose areas goes beyond declaring them be spatially bounded area containing items. It left local their own ...

Through interacting with urban and architectural spaces, pedestrian pathway‟s ambient fingerprints delineate ambiences with identifiable characteristics, thus characterizing landscape perception potentialities. Based on a measure of the surrounding open spaces using isovists, our proposal consists in building a sensory Digital Terrain models (DTM) in which the entropy of the function of radial ...

Partial isovists fields are useful methods to analyze the urban morphology taking into account the visual perception of the pedestrian. However, as previous studies involve a constant visual aperture angle all along the pathway, this paper presents an adaptative method of aperture angular variation according to urban morphology properties. Aperture angle increasing, nearby a square or at roads ...