This is a companion to the essay I recently published
entitled, “Axioms and Economic Fundamentals of City Design”. In hindsight, it
should have been written first, but the problem with ideas is that they rarely
occur in order, at least for me.
2)
We build shelter in the converted Built Domain
to survive.
3)
The Built Domain expands to serve population
growth by consuming land in the Natural Domain and agriculture in its anatomy.
4)
The Built Domain contains Urban and Rural Phyla.
Both include Movement, Open Space, and Life Support Divisions that serve a
Shelter Division.
5)
Building classification by parking system
establishes a foundation for measurement and prediction of shelter capacity
options for any given land area.
6)
We cannot plan for the limited use of land for
shelter until we can accurately measure and predict the shelter capacity
spectrum of options.
7)
All buildings used to shelter our activity fall
into one of six building design classification categories, regardless of
appearance:
a.
G1: All buildings that consume a portion of the
core land area and are served by a surface parking lot around, but not under,
the building on the same premise, excluding land reserved for future expansion.
(Core land area is site plan remaining for building and parking cover after all
other demands and liabilities are subtracted.)
b.
G2: All buildings that consume a portion of the
core land area and are served by a surface parking around and/or under the
building on the same premise, excluding land reserved for future expansion.
c.
S1: All buildings served by adjacent parking
garage levels, spaces, and auxiliary surface parking that consume a portion of
the core land area on the same premise.S2 All buildings and auxiliary surface
parking served by an underground parking garage within the buildable land area
of the premise.
d.
S2: All buildings and auxiliary surface parking
served by an underground parking garage within the buildable land area of the
premise.
e.
S3: All buildings and auxiliary surface parking
served by a parking garage below the building within the core land area of the
same premise
f.
NP: All buildings not served by surface or
structure parking on the same premise.
8)
A building design category may be used to
shelter any permitted activity in an activity group (generally referred to as a
land use category) such as, but not limited to, the following:
a.
Residential
b.
Commercial
c.
Industrial
d.
Institutional
9)
The gross building area potential of a building
design category on a given land area depends on the information entered in the
Design Specification Template of its forecast model.
10) A
gross building area forecast or measurement in square feet (GBA) divided by the
buildable land anticipated or occupied in acres (BLAC) is a measurement of
the shelter capacity of the land utilized
(SFAC). In other words, SFAC = GBA /
BLAC.
11) The
spectrum of shelter capacity measurement ranges from excessively low to
excessively high, and not all measurements and predictions are desirable.
12) A
shelter capacity measurement has measurable intensity, intrusion, and context
implications based on consistent implication equations included in every
building design category forecast model.
13) Implication
measurements are like blood pressure readings. They can be compared and
evaluated to build knowledge regarding the physical, social, psychological,
environmental, and economic results produced.
14) The acquisition of shelter capacity knowledge
depends on a consistent measurement and evaluation research program. (For
instance, the first blood pressure readings were only the beginning of shared
evaluation and comparison that led to medical knowledge.)
15) Implication
measurements have been referred to as Tegimenic measurements after the Latin
word for shelter, tegimen.
16) Tegimenic
knowledge, or Tegimenology, can be used to guide leadership decisions that
affect our ability to provide land for shelter in a Built Domain defined to protect
its source of life, the Natural Domain.
17) In
other words, shelter capacity evaluation, or Tegimenics, is a mathematical
method of measuring or predicting the shelter capacity of land and measuring
the human implications of these decisions.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information about the building design categories,
design specification topics, prediction panels, and implication modules of
shelter capacity forecast models, can be found in my book, “The Equations of
Urban Design”, using the following url:
https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001IR3ODO?ref_=pe_584750_33951330
You may also be interested in some of the 285 essays on my
blog at www.wmhosack.blogspot.com.
They address topics related to the use of shelter capacity evaluation forecast
models and their implication measurement modules.
Walter M. Hosack, July 2026
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