A Study on Spiral Organization of Space Syntax in Shanghai Natural History Museum

Zal Hazmi Norsabaruddin; Arab, Yasser; Hassan, Ahmad Sanusi; Kritsada Anantakarn; Koltouch Anantakarn

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Vol.15(4)(2024)

A Study on Spiral Organization of Space Syntax in Shanghai Natural History Museum

Zal Hazmi Norsabaruddin (School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, MALAYSIA),
Yasser Arab (Department of Architectural Engineering, Dhofar University, Salalah, SULTANATE of OMAN),
Ahmad Sanusi Hassan (School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, MALAYSIA),
Kritsada Anantakarn (Division of Civil Engineering and Construction Management, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok, Uthenthawai Campus, THAILAND),
Koltouch Anantakarn (Department of Civil Engineering, Thammasat School of Engineering, Thammasat University, THAILAND).

Discipline: Architectural Engineering.
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DOI: 10.14456/ITJEMAST.2024.20

Keywords: Movement in space; Building circulation; Museum experience; Space syntax; SNHM; Wayfinding; Biomimicry; Building's spatial configuration; Permeability.

Abstract
Space syntax is a set of techniques to analyse the spatial layouts and users' activity patterns in a building. This paper evaluates a study on the building typology of a museum or public institution. The main objective of this paper is to identify the permeability and wayfinding of the spatial structures of the selected museum, which influences the way users utilise the spatial organisation. The chosen case study is the Shanghai Natural History Museum (SNHM). This study uses the existing layout plans to observe the museum spaces. The study also explores the wayfinding and the level of permeability of the museum using the justified graph as the measurable tool. The result demonstrates that the overall building spaces have a straightforward and complex spatial configuration with balanced public and private spaces of the selected floor plans. Furthermore, the layout spaces interpret the level of wayfinding of each area has a good separation of accessibility. This study illustrates that space syntax is a practical tool for architects to comprehend the function of the spaces since it visualises the building's spatial configurations and quantifies the main building typology trait.
Paper ID: 15A4A
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Norsabaruddin, Z. H., Arab, Y., Sanusi, A. H., Anantakarn, K., and Anantakarn, K. (2024). A Study on Spiral Organization of Space Syntax in Shanghai Natural History Museum. International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 15(4), 15A4A, 1-13. http://TUENGR.COM/V15/15A4A.pdf DOI: 10.14456/ITJEMAST.2024.20

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