- Title
- Miesian intersections: comparing and evaluating graph theory approaches to architectural spatial analysis
- Creator
- Ostwald, Michael J.; Dawes, Michael J.
- Relation
- ARC.FT0991309 and ARC.FT0991309 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT0991309
- Relation
- Graph Theory: New Research p. 37-86
- Relation
- https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=44219
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- One of the earliest graph theory methods developed for the analysis of spatial relations in architecture is called “convex space” analysis. While more than three decades old, this method is still widely used in architectural and urban planning to analyze the physical connections between architectural spaces. Conversely, one of the least well-known or understood graph theory methods for architectural research is called “intersection point” analysis. Despite offering several potential advantages over classic architectural graph theory approaches, the intersection point method has not convincingly been compared with the more traditional method. Using five houses designed by Modernist architect Mies Van Der Rohe as a sample, this chapter constructs a comparison between the results of the classic convex space method and two variations of the intersection point method; “intersection point” and “end node”. The two variations involve, respectively, the decision to either exclude or include “stubs” in a graph. Stubs are part of the underlying axial line map that is used to generate an intersection point graph and without comparative results there has been no way of evaluating their impact or importance. This chapter concludes that the intersection point method is more capable, than the convex space approach, of identifying the significance of space from the perspective of either navigation or movement. The analysis also shows that the decision to include or exclude stubs has an unexpectedly small impact on integration values and a predictable influence on their distribution within an architectural plan. Finally, while the chapter is primarily concerned with the application and evaluation of several variations of graph theory, it concludes with a brief interpretation of what the results suggest about Mies’s early modernist architecture.
- Subject
- Mies Van Der Rohe; convex space analysis; intersection point analysis
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1056265
- Identifier
- uon:16012
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781628085433
- Language
- eng
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