eprintid: 1477235
rev_number: 24
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creators_name: Psarra, S
creators_name: Lazaridou, A
title: Experiencing three-dimensional museum environments: An investigation of the Ashmolean Museum and the Museum of Scotland
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B04
divisions: C04
divisions: F36
note: © Space Syntax Laboratory,The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, 2015
abstract: The relationship between the spatial organisation of museums and visitors' experience has been widely explored. However, previous studies rarely focused upon the actual use and effect of the atria on how people navigate. To understand this interaction entails answering the following research question: How exploration and movement in museums are affected by two and three-dimensional properties? This question is investigated by the comparative study of the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford, renovated by Rick Mather Architects (2009), and the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, designed by Benson and Forsyth (1998). The two museums are selected as relevant cases for their spatial similarities and significant differences closely connected to the organisation of their atria. The intention is to understand whether atria account for similar or different exploration patterns in the ways users navigate in three dimensions. The comparative analysis, stemming from space use observations, space syntax methods and agent simulations, shows that significant differences in real and simulated movement result from the varying spatial positioning and character of the voids. Variability in spatial behaviour derives from the impact of the third dimension, assigning different identities and orientating capacities to the atria and the museums.
date: 2015-07
publisher: Space Syntax Laboratory, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
official_url: http://www.sss10.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/proceedings/
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
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elements_id: 1121130
isbn_13: 978-0-9933429-0-5
lyricists_name: Psarra, Sophia
lyricists_id: SPSAR79
actors_name: Psarra, Sophia
actors_name: Stephenson, David
actors_id: SPSAR79
actors_id: DSTEP19
actors_role: owner
actors_role: impersonator
full_text_status: public
event_title: 10th International Space Syntax Symposium
event_location: London, UCL
institution: The International Space Syntax Symposium X
book_title: Proceedings of the 10th International Space Syntax Symposium
citation:        Psarra, S;    Lazaridou, A;      (2015)    Experiencing three-dimensional museum environments: An investigation of the Ashmolean Museum and the Museum of Scotland.                     In:  Proceedings of the 10th International Space Syntax Symposium.    Space Syntax Laboratory, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1477235/1/Sophia%20Psarra%20SSS10_Proceedings_025.pdf