A landscape potential characterization: spatial template of pedestrian ambient fields within the urban fabric

A landscape potential characterization: spatial template of pedestrian ambient fields within the urban fabric

[SHS:ARCHI] Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management

[INFO:INFO_MO] Computer Science/Modeling and Simulation

Landscape analysis

open spaces

isovist

sensory Digital Terrain Model

ambio-potential

sociotope

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 distances is used as a third dimension. As a case study, the distribution of entropy of the Place Royale square in Nantes (France), presented in a dedicated DTM, helps us characterizing the space " intimacy quality " for each observation point. This measure constitutes a relevant indicator of spatial wealth, revealing several perspectives occurrences for a given point of view during an urban walk. This way, this geotopical process establishes a spatial potential, so as to provide to a pedestrian the ability to reach specified townscapes to be contemplated. This sensorial investigation aims to constitute a tool basis for multi-sensorial planning and design process.

Woloszyn, Philippe

Leduc, Thomas

1e conférence intercontinentale en intelligence territoriale (IT-Gatineau 2011)

2011-10-12

ENG

conference, seminar, workshop communication

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00634058

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/63/40/58/PDF/itgatineau2011-woloszynLeduc.pdf

Gatineau

Canada