Frontiers of Architectural Research >

2017 , Vol. 6 >Issue 4: 431 - 441

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2017.09.003

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Measuring the spatial and social characteristics of the architectural plans of aged care facilities

  • Ju Hyun Lee , 1 ,
  • Michael J. Ostwald 1 ,
  • Hyunsoo Lee 2
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  • 1. School of Architecture and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
  • 2. Department of Interior Architecture and Built Environment, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea

Received date: 26 Apr 2017

Accepted date: 18 Jul 2017

Published date: 18 Jan 2018

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2017 2017 Higher Education Press Limited Company. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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Abstract

This paper presents a method that combines visibility graph and isovist analyses to investigate the spatial and social properties of architectural plans for aged care facilities. The potential of the combined method is examined by measuring the properties of three sets of plans for residential aged care facilities. The first set is a pair of hypothetical, idealized plans, which allegedly reflect the “best practice” in the industry. The second set comprises a pair of plans for recent Australian designs, and the third set is a pair of plans for South Korean facilities. Results of the computational analysis of these six plans suggest that social and cultural factors may shape the design of aged care settings and partially explain their international differences. The application of this methodological approach contributes to the understanding of the relation-ship between spaces and their cultural and social properties in the design of aged care facilities.

Key words： Visibility graph analy-sis (VGA); Space Syntax; Aged care facility; Isovist property; Sociocultural characteristics

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Ju Hyun Lee , Michael J. Ostwald , Hyunsoo Lee . Measuring the spatial and social characteristics of the architectural plans of aged care facilities[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2017 , 6(4) : 431 -441 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2017.09.003

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