Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
To analyse the pedestrian movement and visibility in the area around Guy’s & St Thomas’ hospital in London, Aedas R&D Computational Design Group has used tools and methods developed both as part of the accessibility and movement strand, as well as visual sampling in 3D. The analysis was conducted for several scenarios mapping the future development of the urban context of the hospital.
The movement and accessibility analyses are based on the calculations of geometrically shortest and simplest paths in 2D and multiple level environments. The performance of the environments can be evaluated in terms of the shortest metric paths, or in terms of simplest paths which takes into account the movement patterns of someone unfamiliar or new to the area.
The visibility analysis measures are based on calculating how many times a part of the façade or street is seen from a set of viewpoints in the environment. These viewpoints are either placed as discrete points in the environment, or distributed along routes. Visual sampling in 3D provides evidence for elements in an urban and architectural context that are well visible during a journey and therefore become significant during way-finding. Elevations and locations that are well visible also increase in rental/retail importance and serve as orientation support. Iconic buildings should have high values of visibility
01. Visibility along a route for scenario 1 : 2010
01. Visibility along a route for scenario 2 : 2012
03. Routing analysis for scenario 2 : 2012
04. Visibility from a single point outside the new south gate.
05. Visibility along a single route in the existing scenario.
06. Visibility along a single route in the existing scenario.
07. Visibility along all routes in the existing scenario.
08. Street view of the visibility along a single route.
