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R. Schaffranek, M. Vasku:
"Space Syntax for Generative Design: On the application of a new tool";
Talk: 9th International space Syntax Symposium, Seoul, Korea; 10-31-2013 - 11-03-2013; in: "Proceedings of 9th International Space Syntax Symposium", Y. Kim, H. Park, K. Seo (ed.); Koo Shin Sejong Universtiy Press, Seoul, Korea (2013), ISBN: 9788986177213; 050:1 - 050:12.

Space Syntax can be used to predict, qualify and quantify aspects of human behaviour of different design proposals and the impact on their neighbourhoods. Therefore some design projects already incorporate Space Syntax during the design process stage (Dursun 2007) by proposing different design alternatives and continually testing and adopting them.
In recent years, it has become increasingly common to use physical characteristics like the wind, solar exposure or sound, as driving forces behind a generative design approach. Similar to the various physical models, Space Syntax analysis can be also, some simplifications assumed, processed automatically. Such an approach can be referred to as "inverse design", design by intents, used as constrains to a form and not as form by itself (Faucher and Nivet 2000).
This paper introduces "SpiderWeb" a new tool, under development since 2011, which enables various generative approaches based on Space Syntax. It provides the basics to copy some of the analysis available in "depthmapX". ("depthmapX" is a multi-platform software to perform a set of spatial network analyses designed to understand social processes within the built environment. "depthmapX" is based on the original "UCL Depthmap" and its developed by Tasos Varoudis at UCL´s Space group. (Space Syntax Limited 2013)) Furthermore "SpiderWeb" extends it to other forms of modelling, applicable for urban and architectural design in three-dimensional space.

Architecutre, Paramteric, Generative, Design Grasshopper3d, Space Syntax

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_220923.pdf