Karimi, Kayvan;
Rico Carranza, Eduardo;
(2022)
Sketching maps. Comparison between digital diagrammatic sketches of urban connectivity and actual maps of landscape fabric.
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Proceedings of the 13th Space Syntax Symposium.
(pp. p. 557).
Space Syntax Symposium: Bergen, Norway.
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Abstract
Digital Participatory Platforms (DPPs) are tools allowing general members of the public to express themselves through design actions. This field is rapidly expanding and has the potential to democratize SS theory, making it visible and relevant to many. Tools that allow participants to develop simple diagrams of urban form can be of help since these types of drawings are easy to make and relate directly to some of the abstractions behind SS theory. However, even if we general members of the public can develop these drawings, the relation between these types of drawings and the reality they may intend to represent has not been mapped sp far. To address this issue we propose an experiment where we compare 200 drawings produced by professionals as part of a participatory process with real scale maps of London parks. We develop an analytic method for the lines of these two datasets using geometric feature extraction and dimensionality reduction representation in a t-SNE scatter graph. Results indicate that, for some types of landscapes, the algorithm effectively matches sketches and map morphologies. In other cases, the geometries of sketches and maps of some landscapes are inherently different since designers tend to develop “cartoons” of their designs, forcing curvature of items or forgetting small details which end up being added into the design in later stages. This would suggest the need to develop sophisticated layers of detail in addition to digital tools if they are to adequately translate between a syntactic approach to design and real-life map results.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Sketching maps. Comparison between digital diagrammatic sketches of urban connectivity and actual maps of landscape fabric |
| Event: | 13th Space Syntax Symposium Eduardo Rico |
| Location: | Bergen |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.hvl.no/en/research/conference/13sss/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Sketching, Geometrical analysis, Drawing landscapes |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10163959 |
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