Abstract：The spatial arrangement of wood buildings of traditional Norwegian farms represents the smallest settlement units in
Norway. The length of the timber and the required energy use for heating influenced the arrangement of Norwegian
farms. Typically, they consisted of a group of several buildings containing one or two functions. Historic maps
were used to conduct the following Space Syntax analyses of the original spatial layout of 12 farms: VGA analyses,
all-line analyses, and segment analyses. As the results show, the highest integrated spaces of all farms are related to the
location of the primary living building, named “stugu”. From the stugu the head of the farm has the largest overview
and, topologically, the shortest routes to all the other buildings. Moreover, the Space Syntax analyses showed that
the three identified phenotypes of the farms also have three different genotypes, which is influenced by the type of
landscape where the farm is located. When using Hillier’s types of the simplest spatial relationships[1], the b-type
applies to the row farm, whereas the c-type applies to the square farm and the circular farm, and the d-type to the cluster
farm. In this paper, detailed spatial analyses of five farms are presented. As it turns out, the number of stugu’s on a farm
determines the number of “rings” or the spatial arrangement between the buildings.
