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Designers begin from sketches of how functional spaces should connect, then use tools to generate interactive bubble diagrams and derive feasible geometric plan layout interpretations from graph-based connectivity. 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[1](1p.nourian@tudelft.nl)[p.nourian@tudelft.nl](1p.nourian@tudelft.nl), [2](2samaneh.rezvani@mail.polimi.it)[samaneh.rezvani@mail.polimi.it](2samaneh.rezvani@mail.polimi.it), [3](3i.s.sariyildiz@tudelft.nl)[i.s.sariyildiz@tudelft.nl](3i.s.sariyildiz@tudelft.nl)  \n[Abstract](Abstract). This paper introduces a design methodology and a toolkit developed as a parametric CAD program for configurative design of architectural plan layouts. Using this toolkit, designers can start plan layout process with sketching the way functional spaces need to connect to each other. A tool draws an interactive bubble diagram and a set of tools reveal feasible geometric interpretations of the proposed bubble diagram in terms of plan layout graphs. Offering real-time Space Syntax analyses at the same time, the tools provide feedback on the spatial performance, which is translatable into the likely social performance of the plan layout patterns.  \nKeywords. Architectural configuration; graph theory; space syntax; spatial performance; plan layout.  \nBACKGROUND  \nSpace Syntax theory (Hillier and Hanson, 1984; Hillier, 2007) has established a methodological body of knowledge on spatial qualities of architecture as distinguished from its over-highlighted formal aspects. From an analytical point of view, Space Syntax theory provides a comprehensive and consistent framework for understanding spatial arrangementsand their likely human effects, which we can term as social performance of buildings. From another perspective, in a study of building types as social constructs, John Habraken (Habraken, 1988) categorizes three major aspects of building types as social constructs: spatial organization, physical structure, and stylistic systems. He suggests that the one most intimately related to our behavior is the ‘spatial or-  \nganization’; he specifically mentions that a social role certain space has within a building is very much dependent on its ‘position’ as to the transition from public to private.  \nOn the other hand, from a computational design perspective, the issue of ‘plan layout’ has been mostly addressed from various optimization points of views (Lobos and Donath, 2010); most of which deem configuration as an order that can be‘found’through thousands of trials and errors in putting spaces together in different ways in order to maximize certain qualities. This approach to plan layout is in deep contradiction to viewing architectural design as an intellectual activity initiated with ‘proposing’ configurative ideas.“Architectural and urban  \nSpatial Performance and Space Syntax-Volume 1-Computation and Performance-eCAADe 31 | 357  \ndesign, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put together to form the whole is more important than any of the parts taken in isolation”(Hillier, 2007, p. 1).“Configuration as the way spaces are related to each other in order to serve a functional purpose is the very nature of architecture”(Hillier, 2007, p. 67); and yet we find very little about the way design can be systematically started through dealing with such a matter.  \nWhat is primarily missing in the literature about computational layout is a methodological approach rooted in consideration of “how designers think”(Lawson, 2005); likewise, a comprehensive consideration of social implications of configurations is absent. 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