National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York
In order to support the design of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Aedas Computational Design and Research group built a suite of software that allows architects as well as exhibition designers to simulate the cognitive effect of geometry on visitors as they view and move through the building. Envelopes of views can be generated to manipulate the building’s geometry. By calculating expanse of views, maps of intuitive orientation are produced that help designers to understand transitions between spaces where no obvious delineation exits.
The software illustrates graphically and interactively the visual relationships between viewer and exhibits. Resulting mappings helped to refine the final geometry and can be used to better inform the placement of exhibits.
01. Render of the internal museum space
02. Surface visibility mapping
03. Vertical visibility sections
04. Visibility polyhedra along a visitor's path
05. Volume of space visible from a single point in the exhibition
06. Strength and direction of visual field
07. Directions of visual field
