Assessing the oppressive impact of the form of tall buildings on citizens: Height, width, and height-to-width ratio

Zarghami, Esmaeil; Karimimoshaver, Mehrdad; Ghanbaran, Abdulhamid; SaadatiVaghar, Pooria

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2019.106287

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“…The low-rise building setting was rated as being more open and that (in our sample with video) participants were more satisfied with the openness, which aligns with previous research (Asgarzadeh, Luska, Kogab and Hirate, 2012;Asgarzadeh et al 2014;Zarghami et al 2019). In their work on environmental preferences, Kaplan, Kaplan & Brown (1989) identify four domains of predictors for scene preference: land form (i.e slope of land), land cover (i.e forestation), informational variable (i.e complexity), and perception-based variables (i.e openness).…”

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confidence: 89%

“…One surprising finding of this study is that neither the real world or the 360-degree video study yielded significant effects of building height on oppressiveness. Previous studies which found effects of building height on ratings oppressiveness recruited architectural students as participants; there is a possibility that architectural students are more familiar with the concept of oppressiveness, which may be more of an abstract construct for psychology students to grasp; some study participants in previous studies were unsure about the meaning of the word (Asgarzadeh, Luska, Kogab and Hirate, 2012;Asgarzadeh et al 2014;Zarghami et al 2019). We did, however, observe significant effects of building height on ratings of openness.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…Many cities of developing countries are keen on building urban landmarks to demonstrate their images among world metropolitan groups (Yun 2019). China is no exception in this case.…”

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Influences of new high-rise buildings on visual preference evaluation of original urban landmarks：a case study in Shanghai, China

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Cai

2020

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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Newly-built high-rise buildings exert an unneglectable influence on the original urban outer spatial form. The visual preference evaluation of this influence can be taken as a key reference factor for the evaluation of public acceptance in the course of urban modernization. This paper sets two representative buildings of Shanghai as the research objects: The Oriental Pearl Radio & TV Tower, serving as the original urban landmark, and Shanghai Tower, representing the newly-built high-rise building. Relative height ratio, relative mass ratio, and relative distance ratio of the two buildings at different viewpoints are set as the physical properties. Eight key observation sites were selected as the viewpoints where photos of the two buildings were taken. Then, photo stimulation experiments were conducted with participants and the results were analyzed. The analytical results indicate that newly-built high-rise buildings exert certain influence not only on the urban outer spatial form centering around original urban landmarks, but on the potential change of urban viewpoints as well. The value ranges of relevant physical properties are also influential to visual preference evaluation. Height ratio (0.75, 1.00) and (1.50, 1.71), mass ratio (0.75, 1.10), and distance ratio (0.60, 0.78), the visual preference evaluation would be scored comparatively higher.

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“…Zarghami et al [10] developed a method to study the impact of the form and the physical features of tall buildings on citizens based on Height, width, and height-to-width ratio. Karimimoahaver [11] provided and evaluated different methods of describing a building's visual impact on the city.…”

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A Model for Locating Tall Buildings through a Visual Analysis Approach

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Tall buildings have become an integral part of cities despite all their pros and cons. Some current tall buildings have several problems because of their unsuitable location; the problems include increasing density, imposing traffic on urban thoroughfares, blocking view corridors, etc. Some of these buildings have destroyed desirable views of the city. In this research, different criteria have been chosen, such as environment, access, social-economic, land-use, and physical context. These criteria and sub-criteria are prioritized and weighted by the analytic network process (ANP) based on experts’ opinions, using Super Decisions V2.8 software. On the other hand, layers corresponding to sub-criteria were made in ArcGIS 10.3 simultaneously, then via a weighted overlay (map algebra), a locating plan was created. In the next step seven hypothetical tall buildings (20 stories), in the best part of the locating plan, were considered to evaluate how much of theses hypothetical buildings would be visible (fuzzy visibility) from the street and open spaces throughout the city. These processes have been modeled by MATLAB software, and the final fuzzy visibility plan was created by ArcGIS. Fuzzy visibility results can help city managers and planners to choose which location is suitable for a tall building and how much visibility may be appropriate. The proposed model can locate tall buildings based on technical and visual criteria in the future development of the city and it can be widely used in any city as long as the criteria and weights are localized.

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Assessing the oppressive impact of the form of tall buildings on citizens: Height, width, and height-to-width ratio

Cited by 32 publications

References 39 publications

Exposure to high-rise buildings negatively influences affect: evidence from real world and 360-degree video

Exposure to high-rise buildings negatively influences affect: evidence from real world and 360-degree video

Influences of new high-rise buildings on visual preference evaluation of original urban landmarks：a case study in Shanghai, China

A Model for Locating Tall Buildings through a Visual Analysis Approach

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