A Retrieval Model of Spatial Configuration Based on Space Syntax Histogram

Abstract:

With the application of space syntax theory in urban planning and architecture designing is growing continuously, the number of the urban spatial configuration models based on space syntax will be more and more. However, the use of these models still lacks of some intelligent retrieval models currently. This paper splits the urban spatial configuration into regular grid structure, and uses visibility segmentation to construct the relationship diagrams and then extracts space syntax variables from each node to form the four-dimensional histogram. Furthermore, this method calculates the similarity among models through the measurement of the histogram distance, thus realizes the retrieval of the urban spatial configuration. Experimental results show that this model has a satisfactory retrieval results.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 1044-1045)
• Pages: 1011-1015
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1044-1045.1011
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Chang Hua Li*, Zhi Jie Li, Long Fei Yuan, Xin Liu, Fan Zhang
• Keywords: Histogram, Retrieval, Space Syntax, Spatial Configuration

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