抄録
The importance of functional interface between space users and architectural spaces has been recognized in the building layout procedure. With the development of simulation models, GPSS models have been widely applied to utility facility allocation ploblems. The authors developed a new model based on the theory of Automata in order to simulate more precisely user behaviour in architectural spaces. In this model, architectural spaces are represented by a network containing the nodes and links, while the users are modeled as simulation transactions defined by automaton variables. These variables are traditional Automaton-Input-Output-State, and several new factors such as : Programed Destinations (PD), Induced Destinations (ID), Chains of state evolution and Chains of spatial transition. The transactions trabel through in the network selecting nodes one by one with functions of the variables mentioned above, which simulates by analogy, space users who moves around in an architectural space complex. The simulation results enable us to evaluate beforehand the number and the size of necessary building utility facilities.
