Office Layout
220 m²
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Whatever the space is, the sequence is the same. Name what happens there. Count the people who do it at once. Multiply by the area each of them needs for that activity. Then compare the total with the area you actually have. A room where four people eat needs roughly 60 sq ft of table and chair zone before circulation. Six open plan workstations need 360 to 660 sq ft of desk zone before meeting rooms and storage are added. A standing gathering of thirty needs about 180 sq ft of clear floor. Doing this sum first tells you whether the space is short, adequate or generous, and no amount of clever furniture arrangement changes the answer.
Every dimension in a plan traces back to a person. A standing adult occupies an ellipse of about 18 by 24 in. One person walking needs 24 in of clear width, two people passing need 48 in. A seated person at a desk needs the desk depth plus about 36 in behind for the chair. Once you know those figures, room sizes stop being arbitrary. A hallway is 36 in wide because that is one person plus the room to carry something. A habitable room has a 7 ft minimum dimension because anything narrower cannot hold a person, a piece of furniture and a way past. Build up from the body and the plan comes out the right size the first time.
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Write down what the space is for and how many people use it at once. Multiply by the per-person area for that activity to get a target. This one line decides whether the rest of the exercise is layout or triage.
Measure the space and type each wall length in. SpacePlanner draws it to scale with a live dimension label, so the outline on screen matches the space you measured. Add doors, windows and openings where they really are.
Start with anything that cannot move, then the biggest pieces. If the large items alone do not leave sensible routes through the space, rearranging the small ones will not rescue it.
Check the gaps against the figures below: 24 in for one person, 48 in for two, 36 in behind a working chair. Try a second arrangement, view it in 3D, and export or share the version that works.
Space planning standards start with the person and work outward. The first rows below are ergonomic figures: how much floor a body occupies and how much clear width people need to move. The middle rows are per-person allowances by activity, used to size a dining area, an office or a gathering. The last rows are regulated minimums for rooms and dwellings. Minimums are floors, not targets, and they vary by jurisdiction, so confirm the ones that apply where you are building.
| Measure | Imperial | Metric | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standing adult, body footprint | 18 x 24 in | 46 x 61 cm | The ellipse used to size crowds, queues and circulation. |
| Clear width for one person to walk | 24 in | 61 cm | Shoulder width plus a little. Below this people turn sideways. |
| Clear width for two people to pass | 48 in | 122 cm | Drops to 36 in (91 cm) if one of them steps aside. |
| Standing gathering, per person | 6 sq ft | 0.55 sq m | Dense but workable. Allow 8 sq ft if people carry plates. |
| Seated at tables, per person | 12 to 15 sq ft | 1.1 to 1.4 sq m | Includes the table share and the space to pull a chair out. |
| Open plan workstation footprint, per desk | 60 to 110 sq ft | 5.5 to 10 sq m | The desk zone plus its share of the aisle beside it. This is the per-workstation figure, not gross floor area per person, which is higher again once meeting rooms, storage and the service core are counted. |
| Habitable room, minimum floor area | 70 sq ft | 6.5 sq m | And no less than 7 ft (2.13 m) in any horizontal direction. |
| One bedroom home for one person, minimum | 398 sq ft | 37 sq m | Rises to about 420 sq ft (39 sq m) with a full bathroom. |
| Two bedroom home for three people, minimum | 656 sq ft | 61 sq m | Single storey. A three bedroom home for four rises to about 797 sq ft (74 sq m). |
| Built-in storage in a small home | 11 sq ft | 1.0 sq m | Add roughly 5 sq ft (0.5 sq m) for each extra occupant. |
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It is deciding how much of a floor each activity gets, and where. The work is arithmetic first: list the activities, count the people doing them at the same time, multiply by the area each person needs, add circulation, then compare with the area you have. Only after that does it become a drawing exercise. A plan that skips the arithmetic tends to look reasonable and feel cramped, because the shortfall never shows up until the furniture arrives.
It depends entirely on what they are doing. A standing adult occupies about 18 by 24 in of floor. Standing at a gathering takes roughly 6 sq ft per person, sitting at a table 12 to 15 sq ft, and one open plan workstation 60 to 110 sq ft counting the desk, the chair roll-back and its share of the aisle. That last figure is the workstation footprint only. Gross floor area per person in an office is a separate and larger number, because it divides the whole floor plate by headcount and so absorbs meeting rooms, storage and the service core. Pick the figure that matches the activity, not a general one.
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