{"id":313,"date":"2014-12-03T16:07:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/?page_id=313"},"modified":"2017-02-27T19:08:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T19:08:39","slug":"conference-center","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/?page_id=313","title":{"rendered":"Conference Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of studies we have investigated navigation problems in a conference center in G\u00fcnne\/ Lake M\u00f6hne, Germany. H\u00f6lscher, Brosamle, &amp; Vrachliotis (2012) provide a detailed space syntax analysis of this setting and introduce several new measures to capture wayfinding behavior in a Space Syntax approach.\u00a0 Here we illustrate various depictions of the building, provide a movie clip of a tour through a virtual version of the building, and provide comments by architects and users.\u00a0 The architect comments were derived from a series of interviews with experienced architectural practitioners in Germany and the United Kingdom.\u00a0 The conference center was used in a case study in these interviews.\u00a0 The user comments were collected after visitors of the conference center participated in a wayfinding study.\u00a0 For a more detailed description please refer to H\u00f6lscher, C.; Br\u00f6samle, M., &amp; Vrachliotis, G (2012). Challenges in multilevel wayfinding: A case study with the space syntax technique. <em>Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 39<\/em>, 63-82.\u00a0 (article available upon request from the lead author: <a href=\"mailto:hoelsch@cognition.uni-freiburg.de\">Christoph H\u00f6lscher<\/a>)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Images of the building<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/files\/2014\/12\/droppedImage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-315 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/files\/2014\/12\/droppedImage-300x67.png\" alt=\"droppedImage\" width=\"403\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0 \u00a0The Heinrich-L\u00fcbke-Haus in G\u00fcnne\/ Lake M\u00f6hne, Germany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/files\/2014\/12\/building-images.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-316\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/files\/2014\/12\/building-images.png\" alt=\"building images\" width=\"200\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Outside view of Virtual building model.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Navigation in Buildings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.nd.edu\/~lcarlson\/Laura_Carlson\/Conference_Center_files\/Guenne-VirtualWalk-2.wmv\">Click here for a movie clip of navigation through the virtual building<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Screen shots of physical and virtual building.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/files\/2014\/12\/virtual-conference.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-320\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/files\/2014\/12\/virtual-conference-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"virtual conference\" width=\"337\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/files\/2014\/12\/virtual-conference-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/files\/2014\/12\/virtual-conference.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Representations of Building Structure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/files\/2014\/12\/spacesyntaxcombineds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-323\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/files\/2014\/12\/spacesyntaxcombineds-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"spacesyntaxcombineds\" width=\"362\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/files\/2014\/12\/spacesyntaxcombineds-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/files\/2014\/12\/spacesyntaxcombineds.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Space Syntax analysis of the overall corridor network. Local connectivity is depicted in the left-hand panel, the centrality measure &#8220;integration&#8221; is depicted in the right hand panel. \u00a0While the main corridor on the entrance level is well integrated, other important areas appear to be largely segregated. \u00a0The overall intelligibility score is rather low ( r=.15). Specific problems of the building are discussed below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Note: The analysis illustrated here used VGA- Visibility Graph Analysis, a variant of Space Syntax analysis based on isovists (directly visible floor space) rather than axial lines).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Architect comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I think this is a complex one. This probably would be very confusing to go around.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s no obvious way you&#8217;re suppose to walk to&#8230; because that&#8217;s all similar<\/li>\n<li>I would question why on earth have they done that?<\/li>\n<li>you can get lost<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;ve clearly planned the functional spaces to the detriment of the circulation spaces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>User comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This building is really difficult for me<\/li>\n<li>Too many angles, not enough parallel corridors, the orientation changes rapidly, confusing when I try to get to another room.<\/li>\n<li>Although the floors are roughly above each other, they seem to be offset and different from each other. Problematic.<\/li>\n<li>This building is terrible, very rambling and pretty labyrinthine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of studies we have investigated navigation problems in a conference center in G\u00fcnne\/ Lake M\u00f6hne, Germany. H\u00f6lscher, Brosamle, &amp; Vrachliotis (2012) provide a detailed space syntax analysis of this setting and introduce several new measures to capture wayfinding behavior in a Space Syntax approach.\u00a0 Here we illustrate various depictions of the building, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/?page_id=313\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1897,"featured_media":0,"parent":311,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-313","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","nodate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313\/revisions\/394"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/laura-carlson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}