Complex Building
复杂建筑
Research on complex systems in architectural environments.
研究建筑环境中的复杂系统。
2021 - 2022
Before city-scale analytics, much of the built environment’s logic lives inside buildings—atria, libraries, courtyards, and culturally shaped spatial sequences that organise movement, visibility, and social life. Complex Building gathers space syntax research on how configurational structure shapes experience in architecturally rich, multilevel environments.
One strand examines atrium space in university libraries: axial and visibility graph analysis of multilevel buildings, combined with field investigation, to understand how atrium configuration supports accessibility, communication, and programmatic organisation—distinguishing weak and strong programmatic models and showing how spatial structure guides behaviour.
A complementary strand compares traditional Chinese imperial and private gardens through visibility graph analysis, linking configurational differences in programme, wayfinding, visual relationship, and spatial depth to their distinct cultural contexts—moving from qualitative typologies toward quantitative, hypothesis-driven comparison.
Together, these studies share a common method: space syntax as a bridge between formal analysis and human-centred interpretation of complex architectural space—work that later informed my interest in linking morphology, perception, and social outcome across scales.
Related empirical work is listed below.
在城市尺度分析之前，建成环境的大量逻辑存在于建筑内部——中庭、图书馆、庭院，以及文化塑造的空间序列，组织着移动、可见性与社交生活。复杂建筑 汇集 space syntax 研究，探讨组构结构如何在建筑复杂、多层环境中塑造体验。
一条主线研究大学图书馆的中庭空间：对多层建筑进行轴线与视域图分析，结合实地调查，理解中庭配置如何支持可达性、交流与功能组织——区分强弱功能模型，并展示空间结构如何引导行为。
一条互补主线通过视域图分析比较中国传统皇家与私家园林，将功能、寻路、视觉关系与空间深度上的组构差异与其文化语境相联系——从定性类型学走向定量、可检验的比较。
这些研究共享一种方法：space syntax 作为形式分析与以人为中心建筑空间解读之间的桥梁——也为后来连接形态、感知与社会结果之间的跨尺度兴趣奠定了基础。
相关实证工作见下文。
