ScavaTools: Strategies and tools for the mass dissemination of SCAVA techniques
| Autor: | Franklim Morais, David Leite Viana, Isabel Cristina Carvalho, Jorge Vieira Vaz, Catarina Ruivo |
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| Zdroj: | ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Formal Methods in Architecture ISBN: 9783030575083 |
| Popis: | This paper presents ScavaTools—a set of digital tools integrated into COTS software for architecture and urbanism (A&U). Its scope is on spatial configuration, accessibility, and visibility analysis (SCAVA), correlating different methodologies and underlying theories such as ‘isovists’, ‘space syntax’, ‘visibility graph analysis’ and ‘agent-based analysis’ to A&U practitioners (with ease-of-use and facilitated access). ScavaTools overall aim is to overcome the user interface shortness of the current stand-alone software for this scientific area, in use within academic communities, but much less widespread in A&U professional activity. ScavaTools specific goals are (i) to translate the usual CAD project to a SCAVA project, (ii) to translate among themselves of the traditional five SCAVA models—(1) 3D and (2) 2D metric models, (3) segment and (4) axial line networks and (5) condensed spaces graphs, (iii) to execute the necessary calculations to get SCAVA quantities (i.e. visibility, distance, depth, control, skewness, accessibility, entropy, etc.) and, finally, (iv) to present to A&U practitioners a set of reports in a language easily readable by them. Those reports are functionally orientated, meaning solving A&U problems the A&U professionals asked ScavaTools to do. The paper describes the conceptual and discrete specifications of each of the five models and the eleven tools (which integrate ScavaTools software) developed to perform the four tasks described earlier (i–iv). Although the paper is a generic presentation of the conceptual structure of ScavaTools and not an operational handbook, it also presents some brief ideas of its operation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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