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Building Circulation from a Syntactic Context in Relation to Indoor Thermal Environment

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Formal Methods in Architecture

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Building circulation layouts channel materials, energy, information, and people from one location to another inside a building and reflect the overall building spatial organization which is sought to affect indoor thermal conditions. This paper is a theoretical review that performs a cross-thinking of researches in the fields of building circulation design and indoor thermal conditions. The methodology consisted of three steps. First, the general theories in indoor circulation design are reviewed, and a syntactic analysis approach is chosen to understand the movement patterns. Second, the adaptive approach of naturally conditioned spaces along with its affecting factors is addressed as a primary evaluator of indoor thermal conditions. Third, previous studies of both fields are presented, to confirm the relation between the syntactic measures to social and economic measures, and the geometric measures to indoor environmental measures. Based on the discussed concepts in both fields, a new thinking approach is proposed, relating syntactic measures to indoor thermal measures. This approach offers an early indoor thermal feedback on primary design decisions of the building layout. Further experimental work with quantitative measures is needed to confirm this proposition.

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    Leen Hiasat & Pedro Januário

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Hiasat, L., Januário, P. (2021). Building Circulation from a Syntactic Context in Relation to Indoor Thermal Environment. In: Eloy, S., Leite Viana, D., Morais, F., Vieira Vaz, J. (eds) Formal Methods in Architecture. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57509-0_11

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