At present, there are several spatial analyses tools available for analyzing the spatial properties of the built environment. Spacematrix' focus is on various types of density on the urban block...

Oct 1, 2017 · Gross space index (GSI) and floor space index (FSI) are two of the most common density indicators. They describe respectively the compactness and the intensity of buildings in the urban textures.

The Density indicators exist out of three indices that define density in an area. These are: FSI - Floor Space Index or Floor Area Ration; which gives information about the intensity of the buildings in relation to the open space. The higher the …

Berlin's Traditional type showed the best balance between FSI, GSI, average building height and OSR, with buildings ranging from 1 to 9 storeys. It also achieved the highest housing densities (188 dwellings/ha, on average), but at a cost of OSR.

Here, we propose a new formulation of urban density characterization by inte-grating open space morphological characteristics and a weighted neighborhood-aware density calculation. To achieve this, we associate a building’s footprint data to a surrounding open space’s geometry.

At present, there are several spatial analyses tools available for analyzing the spatial properties of the built environment. Spacematrix' focus is on various types of density on the urban block such as FSI, GSI, OSR (or spaciousness), network density (N) and the number of floors (L).

... our renewed approach, the GSI corresponds to the ratio between the building's footprint area and the corresponding Voronoi diagram's cell area. The second one is the floor space index...

Urban quality can be partly quantified in parameters like Floor Space Index (FSI - intensity), Ground Space Index (GSI - compactness), Open Space Ratio (OSR - pressure on open space) and height.

Building densities (that is Floor Space Index (FSI) or Floor Area Ratio (FAR)) relate the gross floor area to the surface of the accompanying base land area. The surface of the base land area can be defined on many scales, from plot to municipality.

GSI and FSI As written above, aim in this subsection is to benefit from building’s neighborhood (as well-formalized spatial object) to revise FSI and GSI definitions. Thus, these two commonly...