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 ...

The pedestrian mobility is a way to understand how a person might experience the void in between the buildings (this void defines a space portion as a shape) and therefore the urban fabric itself. The present paper aims to characterize landscape potentialities through pedestrian perception. Our proposal consists in building a set of sort of sensory Digital Elevation Models in which the third di...

New techniques to measure 2-D and 3-D visibility over urban spaces are presented in this paper. The concept of ‘isovist’, i.e. the visible space from a vantage point, could help in providing a quantifiable basis for Kevin Lynch's urban analysis, as outlined in his book The Image of the City. We also expand on the concept of 3-D isovists and develop a new technique to calculate them on Digital E...

We developed new measures of structural complexity using single point terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) clouds. These metrics are depth, openness, and isovist. Depth is a three-dimensional, radial measure the visible distance in all directions from plot center. Openness percent scan pulses near-omnidirectional view without return. Isovists measurement area location, quantified viewshed within fo...

Finding a method to evaluate people’s emotional responses to urban spaces in a valid and objective way is fundamentally important for urban design practices and related policy making. Analysis of the essential qualities of urban space could be made both more effective and more accurate using innovative information techniques that have become available in the era of big data. This study introduc...

Nowadays, the use of outdoor navigation applications is quite common. For indoor navigation, this case still an emerging application due to lack a standardised positioning equipment, higher costs, accuracy issues, more complex structure spaces and fact that comprehensive network model support for floor-level paths non-level studies on computation routes are not fully developed yet. Due degree c...

Confeego is a suite of tools to understand and harness the effects of spatial configuration in urban systems or complex buildings developed by Space Syntax Limited and is available free for academic use. Confeego has been developed to support the various phases of a consultancy or research project and in that sense consists of several tools that are grouped according to the type of tasks involv...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of visual ambiences (visualscape) onto an urban pedestrian pathway. This work takes place within the interdisciplinary research project called Ambioflux, dealing with the sustainable mobility issues in the city. We add to the spatial semantic layer GDMS (Generic Datasource Management System) an innovative method based on partial isovists fields in...