Designing a northern portion of an office space requires strategic planning to create a functional layout with workstations and a break room. The detailed process involves using reference planes for alignment, ensuring adequate space between workstations, as well as maintaining balance between productive spaces and areas for relaxation.
Key Insights
- The office layout design strategically designates a corner for the break room and evenly distributes workstations across the available space, ensuring a balance between work and relaxation areas.
- The use of reference planes as a tool is highlighted, aiding in alignment and maintaining consistency in the layout, particularly for workstation arrangement. This helps in creating an organized, easily navigable workspace.
- The design also takes into consideration the need for enough space between workstations for easy movement. The concept of 'white space' is emphasized, with additional workstations added judiciously to avoid crowding and maintain a comfortable working environment.
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Now for the northern portion of the Office here, what I'm going to do is I'm going to designate this corner to be a Break Room space here, and then we're going to have the same layout essentially just up here. And so what I'll do is I'll draw in a Reference Plane, and I'm going to set the first bank of workstations to be six feet from the face of the window here. And I'm just going to use the same relationship from the column.
So I'll just grab these here and copy them, and we'll go ahead and I can just grab this Reference Plane. So I'm going to move it to another one up here, and then I can set those. And now we can do our mirror about the grid line here.
And then I'm going to go ahead and delete this first bank here of two and two, because like I said, this is going to be kind of the Break Room area. And then we're going to go ahead and add another row, but it's just going to be a half row. But we want to make sure we have enough space between our workstations so that people can actually walk by there.
So what I'll do is I'll draw another Reference Plane. And this is a great tool. A lot of people don't use it very often, but I like it because it helps you to work through and kind of keep things lined up.
So I'm going to give myself four feet four between, and then I'll just copy these across here. And just grabbing that endpoint, and then setting them there. And I can go ahead and delete some of these items, because we're going to still add a few more workstations, because you can see we’ve got quite a bit of white space in here.
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But I was thinking just one more bank of four on this side over here, so I could just copy those across. And it's kind of the same method—we're just using that same spacing between these so we can have the aisles and not have to go through and place Reference Planes or dimension it every single time. And so now you can see we've kind of created this corner that'll be the Break Room and lounge area.
And then we could start to fill in some of these spaces if we wanted. This column is going to make things a little tricky, but we can probably get another set of workstations in here. And then maybe leave that one open for like a lounge space or soft seating area that could be put in here.
And that's going to be our workstation furniture for the north side of the Office. And the next thing we'll do is we'll go ahead and start to designate our different rooms so that we could use our departments to start to define the rooms with specific colors.
