Creating design requires imagination. Evaluating design requires method. You can call it form, shape, arrangement, order or composition, but the core of design and the core of something with a useful value is the same - geometric configuration . The acquisition of any important asset, whether a building, a company or a location, demands the exercise of due diligence. Over the past two decades, new ways of thinking about architecture and design and new analytic techniques have been developed making it possible to represent designs in new ways and to analyze them quantitatively.
Function depends mostly on configuration.
Documenting configuration and the deep structure of design involves design due diligence. Network geometry is the analytic tool to expose the underlying functionality of buildings and places. Space analytic models describe the probability that any space within the overall spatial system, independent of its programmed use, will be intelligible and 'naturally' attract movement. The impact of any adjacent programmed uses can then be evaluated for their impact on other uses through the overall spatial system. Based on the analysis we can identify one or more strategic alternatives.