SPATIAL SYNTACTIC AND WAYFINDING

Spatial Syntactic and Wayfinding

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Case Studies Names2

Rationale of the Research2

Structure of the Dissertation3

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW5

Issue and Its Importance to Universal Design5

Economic Values5

Social Values6

Environmental Values7

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY9

Data analysis9

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Wayfinding is a vital and intuitive process within which the observer can perceive and organize his environment. Tolman (1948) used the term cognitive map to study the behavior of rats in a maze. After that, many studies on the nature of cognitive representations have been carried out. Two publications were really influential in paying attention to cognitive mapping studies, the first is the image by Boulding in 1958, and the second is The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch in 1960. Boulding emphasized that understanding what people do requires understanding what they know, and that understanding the image in people's minds is essential in understanding human behavior. Gyorgy Kepes (1944) urged that we create symbols and images to understand environmental surroundings, individually in our personal images and socially in images we share with others. Lynch tried to explore the relation between an observer and his environment and how the image is built up. He aimed to investigate people's feelings and knowledge about their environment.

According to him, finding one's way depending on environmental knowledge requires, first, to know what internally represented about his environment. Sketch maps and interviews can give us what's coded in people's minds about their environment. The degree of completeness of sketch maps and the way people use in describing a way for strangers can predict the degree of urban legibility; and outline the actual reasons behind wayfinding problems.

Case Studies Names

Case study: Hampstead Garden Suburb, London to explain that sketch map in spatial cognition is closely related to the spatial configuration in the real world. Reference from Kim and Penn (Both professors).

Case study: City of London. Reference from Ruth Concroy and Sonit (USA).

Case study: New York Airport using colour coding, pictograms, polyglot signages to influence wayfinding decisions.

Case study to support the two comparision: Boston, circa 1950.Reference from Dalton and Bafna, Geogia Institute of Technology, USA.

Rationale of the Research

Successful wayfinding design is integral to universal design because it fosters easy comprehension and use of built entities (region, city, neighborhood, building, park, landscape feature). It includes overall spatial organization of the setting, articulation of form-giving features, individual architectural and environmental features, and information provision. Design of building features can assist users to find their way and maintain their sense of orientation, factors that contribute substantially to their satisfaction and frequency of use of a built setting.

The rationale of this research is to understand how spatial configuration and environmental graphic design affect wayfindingdecisions and behaviours in built environment.

Structure of the Dissertation

This research was divided in to several chapters. The following is the short out line of each chapter.

Chapter One: Introduction

The chapter one dicusses the fundamental concept of the Spatial cognition and wayfindings. This chapter also discusses the rationale of the research and includes the name of case studies.

Chapter two: Literature Review

This chapter will review the importance ...