Li, Xiaoming; Sailer, Kerstin; (2024) The network of spatial co-awareness: Modelling public and private interfaces in buildings using elderly care facilities as an example. In: Charalambous, Nadia and Psathiti, Chrystala and Geddes, Ilaria, (eds.) Space Syntax Symposium 14. (pp. pp. 593-614). tab edizioni: Rome, Italy.

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Buildings are argued to play a fundamental role in organising social relations through the construction of socio-spatial interfaces between different categories of people. Understanding how spaces and people are separated or integrated through interfaces is indispensable for the examination of building performance and the identification of building genotypes. Classic space syntax methods characterise spatial interfaces through analysing the configuration of spaces, i.e., the ‘empty’ part of buildings. What is missed are the ‘solid’ components of building spaces such as seats, which act as carriers of human behaviours, and their placement inside buildings has the potential to shape socio-spatial interfaces between different people. Taking eight elderly care facilities in China as an example, this study developed a spatial co-awareness network model to disentangle public and private interfaces inside buildings by focusing on the visual relations between behavioural carriers of public seats and nursing beds. An automatic workflow based on functions of DepthmapX and Python code was also proposed for the generation, visualisation and analysis of co-awareness networks. By establishing networks that reflected visual relations among beds, among seats, as well as between beds and seats, varied characteristics and patterns of private interfaces, public interfaces and private-public interfaces in facilities were revealed through network attributes, which were discussed in relation to the stimulation of random interaction, opportunities for passive social participation, and the need for privacy. The paper proposes a method that complements existing space syntax models, thus contributing to the study of complex buildings in which multiple categories of users coexist.

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