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Amr Ali Bayoumi
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2024.03.001
Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Alexandria 21500, Egypt
This paper provides a comprehensive examination of El Sallam Garden in Port Said City, concentrating on its landscape characteristics and potential for design enhancement. This study looks at how space syntax can be used to assess the impact of a tree planting design’s spatial configuration on an urban park’s visual fields. Trees play an important role in determining the spatial characteristics of an outdoor space. According to space syntax theory, an urban area is a collection of connected spaces that can be represented by a matrix of quantitative properties known as syntactic measures. Computer simulations can be used to measure the quantitative properties of these matrices. This study uses space syntax techniques to assess how tree configurations and garden area which can affect the social structures of small-scale gardens in Port Said. It also looks at how these techniques can be used to predict the social structures of four garden zones in El Sallam Garden. The study includes an observational and space syntax study through comparative analysis of four garden zones in El Sallam garden. The results of the study show that the area and planting configurations of the garden had a significant effect on the syntactic social and visual measures of the urban garden. The conclusions and recommendations can be a useful tool for landscape architects, urban planners, and legislators who want to enhance public areas and encourage social interaction in urban settings.
VGA (visibility graph analysis), agent simulation, space syntax, minimal paths, garden landscape, design, behavioral mapping, gate count.
Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture 18 (2024) 101-111 doi: 10.17265/1934-7359/2024.03.001
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