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Syntactic analysis focuses analyzing space from a general perspective, where connections of ‘visibility and access’ are analyzed through different geometrical abstractions. In universal design research, the point of origin is that what is ‘visible’ or ‘accessible’ is different for different people depending on for example age or disability. This pa...
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... results reveal that only a third of the benches in the city of Uppsala has another bench within 50 meters. If increasing the radius to 100 meters, we find that 83% of all benches are connected with at least one other bench (Figure 3). As the distance increases a slightly larger share of the benches add up to the system and measuring 250 meters as much as 92% of the benches are connected. ...
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... In the concept of universal design, the environmental conditions affect different individuals differently, while the methods using the syntactic models of the space generalise the integrated data about the behavioural patterns. These general environmental aspects of accessibility were studied by using the Space Syntax methodology in the urban scale [22]. This article presents a case study on wayfinding in the Outpatient Clinic of the National Cancer Institute of Gliwice. ...
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