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In the past decade a range of formal spatial analysis methods has been developed for the study of human engagement, experience and socialisation within the built environment. Many, although not all, of these emanate from the fields of architectural and urban studies, and draw upon social theories of space that lay emphasis on the role of visibility, movement, and accessibility in the built environment. These approaches are now gaining in popularity among researchers of prehistoric and historic built spaces and are given increasingly more weight in the interpretation of past urban environments. Spatial Analysis and Social Spaces brings together contributions from specialists in archaeology, social theory, and urban planning who explore the theoretical and methodological frameworks associated with the application of new and established spatial analysis methods in past built environments. The focus is mainly on more recent computer-based approaches and on techniques such as access analysis, visibility graph analysis, isovist analysis, agent-based models of pedestrian movement, and 3D visibility approaches. The contributors to this volume examine the relationship between space and social life from many different perspectives, and provide illuminating examples from the archaeology of Greece, Italy and Cyprus, in which intra-site analysis offers valuable insights into the built spaces and societies under study.

Spatial analysis (Statistics) in archaeology --- Archaeology --- Architecture, Ancient --- History & Archaeology --- Methodology --- 2D and 3D Spatial Analysis. --- Accessibility. --- Movement. --- Space Syntax Analysis. --- Visibility.

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This book is a collection of articles that have been published in the Special Issue “Responsive Architecture” of the MDPI journal Buildings. The eleven articles within cover various areas of sensitive architecture, including the design of packaging structures reacting to supporting components; structural efficiency of bent columns in indigenous houses; roof forms responsive to buildings depending on their resiliently transformed steel shell parts; creative design of building free shapes covered with transformed shells; artistic structural concepts of the architect and civil engineer; digitally designed airport terminal using wind analysis; rationalized shaping of sensitive curvilinear steel construction; interactive stories of responsive architecture; transformed shell roof constructions as the main determinant in the creative shaping of buildings without shapes that are sensitive to man-made and natural environments; thermally sensitive performances of a special shielding envelope on balconies; quantification of generality and adaptability of building layout using the SAGA method; and influence of initial conditions on the simulation of the transient temperature field inside a wall.

spanish balcony --- form-finding --- agent-based theory --- strength --- carrier component structures --- digital tools --- shape transformation --- Karamba 3D --- free-form building --- folded sheet --- performance-oriented design --- spatial analysis --- moveable facade components --- space plan --- building free-form structure --- situatedness --- heat flow --- interactive architecture --- steel construction --- thermal conditions --- responsive architecture --- kinetic envelope --- architectural form --- thermal performances --- Grasshopper --- algorithmic-aided shaping --- adaptive envelope --- initial conditions --- adaptability --- parametric design --- digital fabrication --- shadows --- thin-walled open profile --- steel bar structures --- network analysis --- outdoor test cells --- interaction narrative --- CFD --- sensor interaction --- wind analysis --- vernacular houses --- corrugated shell roof --- bent piles --- building free form structure --- boundary conditions for simulation --- thin-walled profile --- structural systems --- Ammatoan houses --- flexibility --- structural analysis --- numerical analysis --- experimental measurement --- adaptive design --- integrated architectural form --- evaluation tool --- effectivity --- building structure --- parametric architecture --- user experience --- justified plan graphs --- generality --- Space Syntax --- architectural morphology --- simulation and computational design studies

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The Heritage Patterns—Representative Models issue of Heritage welcomed twelve articles that discussed traditional and contemporary methodologies, as well as scholars from different backgrounds who intended to seek patterns of tangible heritage and its underlying principles to understand the diversity of heritage approaches. The Special Issue aims to research the patterns in heritage and the underlying rules that define tangible heritage as a universal value in spatial coexistence, economics, urban life, and design via case studies and theoretical proposals that could be implemented in the future. The pattern language and the heritage phenomenon could act as a base of observation to deduct logic and create generative algorithms (generative design); to understand the importance of spatial connection with tangible heritage and urban forms (space syntax, urban morphology, and urban morphometrics) and its visibility; as well as archaeological, architectural, and urban heritage. Based on the UNESCO-ICOMOS doctrines and the examination of morphological regions, urban morphological research and its different layers (urban forms, structural components, built environment, urban tissue, and their interaction) act as a background and foundation for general urban heritage conservation and protection proposals, and also as the base of specific interventions in the built environment caused by natural disasters.

urban morphology --- historico-geographical --- town plan --- preservation --- design guidelines --- conservation --- heritage --- urban form --- town-plan --- streets --- plots --- block-plans of buildings --- New York --- urban planning --- pattern language --- generative modelling --- Vienna --- Austria-Hungary --- Barnet --- suburban centres --- spatial morphology --- heritage syntax urbanism --- community heritage --- tangible heritage --- intangible heritage --- space syntax --- cultural heritage --- industrial landscape planning --- industrial landscape --- post-industrial landscape --- industrial tourism --- industrial heritage --- spatial layout --- spatial distribution --- spatial structure --- mapping --- surveying --- indigenous place values --- colonisation --- Michel de Certeau --- lost landscapes --- design reparation --- architecture --- healing architecture --- ergonomics --- community building --- ecology --- architecture for children --- low-tech --- universal design --- vernacular architecture --- regionalism --- visibility analysis --- isovist --- field of view --- urban heritage --- built environment --- Istanbul --- architectural heritage --- spatial distribution characteristics --- influencing factors --- UNESCO heritage --- heritage protection --- urban history --- urban design of 19th century --- system of public squares and city parks --- Zagreb --- Croatia --- urban block --- urban transformation --- urban reconstruction --- historical core --- sustainable urbanisation --- liveable urbanism --- evidence-based design --- Asian cities