I use computational methods to quantify & analyse the built environment and its use. Currently focused on the intersections of the #BuiltEnvironment with #Health and #WellBeing.
My research falls broadly into: #SpatialDataScience, #UrbanAnalytics, #SpaceSyntax, #UrbanMorphology, #UrbanPlanning, #Architecture, #Inequality, #PublicHealth
| Website | http://www.kimonkrenz.com |
| https://twitter.com/KimonKrenz | |
| Institution | The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL |
| Research | Spatial Data Science, Urban Analytics, Space Syntax, Urban Morphology, Inequality, Public Health |
Thrilled to unveil the next terms of the Space Syntax Lab Seminars 23–24. Our 11 talks cover diverse topics, such as #Permeability, #SpaceSyntax, #UrbanImagery models, #HumanBehaviour, #Buildings, #Housing, & #Segregation.
Register for each: https://bit.ly/SSLSeminars_23-24
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Join us on Thursday 08.06 at 4pm BST to the next #SSLSeminars session by @ilgit0 who'll talk about her work on the persistence of #SpatialSegregation in 15 US cities using #SpaceSyntax. @spacesyntax
Register: https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsdeioqjksGtAeWHwd4H69Y5XE32udFIni
More details: http://bit.ly/SSLSeminars
Redlining Persistence in US Cities: Segregation Through the Lens of Urban Configuration Spatial disparities in the US are closely related to systemic inequality, as historically underprivileged communities were restricted to specific areas by government policy. This policy has significantly impacted segregation, but current income inequality and increased land value have intensified spatial disparities, resulting in segregation to persist. My previous study at SSS13 found that different US cities have unique configurations resulting in diverse integration and segregation forms, systemic exclusion, intentional self-segregation, or enclaving strategies of different racial and ethnic groups. Although the results were meaningful, the sample size needed to be increased to generalize findings. My ongoing study allows the statistical investigation of more cities with different factors contributing to the persistence of redlining. In this research, I attempt to answer which factors contribute to redlining persistence by systematically examining segregation patterns across 15 US cities and investigating configurational, demographic, economic, and social factors that might contribute to segregation in these cities. I aim to propose a data-informed exploration and a regression model in three steps: (1) exploring spatial correlations of historical residential segregation patterns and urban configuration with street network analyses (NAIN and NACH) using data visualizations, (2) followed by a multivariate regression model that assesses the factors contributing to the persistence of residential segregation due to redlining in US cities, and finally (3) using feature selection to choose which factors help the model increase its statistical significance. _ This event is organised by the Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Dr Kimon Krenz ([email protected])
Join us on Thursday 01.06 at 4pm BST to the next #SSLSeminars session by @Gazi_Universite's Prof Burcu Ozduru who'll talk about patterns of #IntraUrban #Centralities in Ankara's #UrbanGrowth. m@[email protected]
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Intra-Urban Centrality Levels Through Street Networks: Evidence from Ankara’s Urban Growth Urban Planning Theory is looking for new models to explain new centre formations. Planners rely on comprehensive plans with strategic forecasts; however, due to the nonlinearity of interactions between people and places via the multi-modalities of mobility and communication innovations, planners must look at the allocations of a multitude of events in the urban system. The street network provides information for various opportunities and costs and overall, when a city’s centrality levels are examined at the intra-urban level, various levels of centralities and affiliated land use types can be detected. Identifying city centres and the urban structure of the 21st-century city has become more complex but using the tools offered by various analysis techniques proves to be helpful. In this study, the change in centrality levels of the capital city of Turkey, Ankara will be assessed using sDNA+. _ This event is organised by the Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Dr Kimon Krenz ([email protected])
Join us on Thursday 18.05 at 4pm BST to the next #SSLSeminars session by @martinfleis & @darribas who'll talk about their research on measuring #UrbanForm & #UrbanFunction in Great Britain. @spacesyntax
Register: https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvcuGtqzsvEtcK752NcgVOuVXoNlgE-BOA
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The Emergent Structure of Urban Form and Function: A Data-Driven Overview of the British Landscape The internal structure of urban environments that compose individual cities is key to understanding the rules underpinning their genesis, development, and further evolution. Their growth and change follow piecemeal, local, bottom-up processes that, to be fully understood, require analytical methods following the same logic without imposing a priori classes or groups. In this paper, we use the concept of spatial signatures, a bottom-up data-driven classification of predominantly urban environments based on their form and function, as the basis for a deep dive into the composition of cities. Its application on the whole of Great Britain provides a unique combination of national scale and detail with spatial units derived from individual buildings and street segments. We use this classification to analyse the inherent regularity and emergence of spatial patterns in urban systems, unveiling unique insights into cities' built structures. The results provide a profound understanding of the spatial distribution of signature types within and outside cities, from their geographical distribution to co-occurrence and relationship between classes, we expose the unique, organic hierarchy of British cities. The findings illustrate the ability of spatial signatures to capture and delineate the organisation of space based on a rich description of its urban form and urban function, one that combines granular detail and national scale and opens new pathways for understanding how our cities are shaped and how to manage their future development. _ This event is organised by the Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Dr Kimon Krenz ([email protected])
Join us on Thursday 11.05 at 4pm BST to the next #SSLSeminars session by @GustavoMaldG and @Chr_Lenart
who'll talk about their research on #SocialHousing in London and Vienna. #SpaceSyntax @spacesyntax
Register: https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvfu6qrzoqGNGy1m9553HoLO3Tur48tOin
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Social Housing as an Integrated Component of a City? A Comparison of Projects in London and Vienna This research investigates how spatial attributes correspond to the public debate on a social housing project’s success or failure. London and Vienna are two cities with long, but very different histories of social housing. Social housing estates from both cities - serve as case studies with different public narratives on their failures and success. The history of social housing in London has shown how spatial segregation and “bad architecture” have been accused of being responsible for a social housing project’s failure in public discourse. Vienna’s social housing estates hardly had to deal with severe social problems, however, public debate on the success of social housing is mostly focusing on aspects of affordability rather than spatial or architectural qualities. In order to test the role of spatial integration and segregation on the performance of housing projects, a set of methods of urban and spatial analysis were chosen, developed and combined within this research, to describe and compare the spatial situation of projects to the city on various scales. This research tries to tackle the question of whether spatial integration and segregation in the urban fabric conform to the public narrative of a housing project and with the notion of whether being an integrated city component or not. This work opens further questions on what aspects should be considered for the good integration of social housing projects as a performing component within the urban fabric. _ This event is organised by the Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Dr Kimon Krenz ([email protected])
Join us next Thursday 04.05 at 4pm BST to our first #SSLSeminars session by Fánel Contreras who'll talk about her research on how #Modernism influenced the design of Latin #Architecture schools. #SpaceSyntax @spacesyntax
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School Designs and Modernism: A Comparative Study of Latin American Schools of Architecture The first Latin American schools of architecture were purposely designed and built during the 1950s under the discussion and influence of Modern Movement ideas. This seminar presents an analysis of four schools of architecture in Latin American countries (Peru, Mexico, Venezuela and Brazil) and compares them with the Bauhaus School of Design (BSD) and the Chandigarh College of Architecture (CCA) as existing referents of Modernism. The main objective of this study is to identify the points of confluence between the perspectives of the Modern Movement and of each designer in their respective context, and how their ways of thinking influenced the design of Latin American schools built during this time in terms of spatial configuration, perception and discourse, looking to go beyond the formal properties traditionally discussed. _ This event is organised by the Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Dr Kimon Krenz ([email protected])
Excited to announce the new term of the #SpaceSyntax Lab Seminars. We look forward to talks by Fánel Contreras, Gustavo Maldonado Gil & Christina Lenart, @martinfleis & @darribas, Burcu H. Ozuduru, and Ilgit Toprak. #SSLSeminars @spacesyntax
More details and registration below: https://bit.ly/SSLSeminars
Join us online on 02.03 at 4pm to the #SSLSeminars at the #SpaceSyntax lab @TheBartlettUCL
Siqi Chen @C47001 will talk about her research on #Refugee #Children's play #Environments in and around their accomodations.
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Exploring methodological approaches in a challenging environment: refugee children’s access to play in/around their refugee accommodations Being able to explore and play in quality open spaces is crucial for children, especially children with refugee backgrounds, since they provide children with the opportunity to practice and hone social, cognitive, emotional and physical skills. This presentation introduces systemic investigations of refugee children’s playspaces accessible possibilities in micro- (inside their accommodations) and meso-environments (around their accommodations), summarising from case and site studies in Berlin, Germany. The research has faced a few technical and social difficulties since it aimed to document comparable academic evidence of refugee children in transit periods from refugee facilities with temporary structures. It attempted to minimise accessibility and environmental measure gaps by linking refugee children’s environmental perceptions, spatial characteristics of refugee accommodation environments and the opportunities for their playing behaviours. However, limitations do exist. By broadly gathering qualitative and quantitative data, this research helps understand how refugee children perceived ‘the presentence of playspaces’ and ‘playspaces accessibility’ from architectural perspectives. _ This event is organised by the Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Dr Kimon Krenz ([email protected])
Join us online on 16.02 at 4pm to the #SSLSeminars at the #SpaceSyntax lab @TheBartlettUCL
@MichalGatMorad will provide an overview of her work bridging #Architecture, #CognitiveScience and #Design decision-making.
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Linking cognition and architecture to design human-centred built environments The rising complexity of built environments in the face of global urbanisation necessitates a deeper understanding of how architectural design decisions affect occupants’ cognition and behaviour. At the same time, for behavioural findings to become actionable, it is necessary to integrate it into the fast-paced architectural design process to inform the design of human-centred environments while the design is still flexible. In this talk I will demonstrate through my past and current research how knowledge and methods from cognitive science can be used to achieve these goals. In the first part of my talk, I will showcase how the use of behavioural experiments in virtual reality and in real world settings can be used to quantify the impact of architectural features on a variety of cognitive functions such as wayfinding in multi-level buildings, and face-to-face interactions between caregivers in emergency medicine wards. In the second part of my talk I will exemplify how cognitive-agent modelling makes it possible to encapsulate the behavioural findings from the laboratory into a computational model that is integrated into the architectural representation of buildings, supporting the comparison of design alternatives for a range of cognitive or behavioural metrics. In the third part of the lecture, I will demonstrate how methods from the field of Human-Computer Interaction can help us understand how architects design with or without knowledge from cognitive science to critically challenge the notion that such knowledge is at all relevant for architecture. _ This event is organised by the Space Syntax Laboratory, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Dr Kimon Krenz ([email protected])
The #SpaceSyntax Lab invites expressions of interest from researchers who wish to present their work as part of the #SSLS series.
The submission deadline for presentations between April and June is 23.03.23.
Apply here: https://forms.gle/ewuHXyRq69WrDo9Y9
The Space Syntax Lab (SSL) invites expressions of interest from researchers who wish to present their work as part of the seminar series. This application procedure is an effort to increase the inclusiveness of our series and enable the display of quality research that otherwise might be overlooked. The SSL Seminar Series brings together researchers and students to share their work at the intersection of architecture, urban space and society. It is hosted by Bartlett’s internationally renowned Space Syntax Laboratory. The series features a mixture of invited international speakers, UCL researchers and PhD students providing diverse viewpoints on how we understand, analyse and design both buildings and cities. It is organised by Dr Kimon Krenz ([email protected]). The public seminars take place online via Zoom, and we aim to make a recording of each session accessible on the UCL Bartlett School of Architectures Vimeo account. Previous contributions to the series can be viewed on Vimeo, see 21–22 and 22–23. Please note, applications are reviewed by an expert panel and a submission does not guarantee a presentation. The submission deadline for presentations between April and June is 23.03.23.
