On the territory of the office building. Office layout is an overview of all kinds, modern design options, as well as the organization of a convenient workplace (90 photos). Ways to organize a working space

The principles of designing office and administrative buildings, with the dynamics of development of new building technologies, began to be distinguished by the complexity and originality of constructive solutions. The design functions themselves expanded, which now includes pre-project coordination with verification of the execution of all items of work on the project, with architectural and urban planning position. Therefore, modern design of office and administrative buildings should be carried out by competent specialists who have practical experience in this type of activity. For the completeness of knowledge of modern office and administrative buildings, it is necessary to consider the concepts "administrative building" and "office building", using professional terminology.

The concept of "administrative building" in the construction environment is collective, and includes various types of buildings in order to create all necessary conditions for the work of management personnel of enterprises and organizations, with absolutely different functions of economic, industrial and commercial activities. The range of construction of administrative buildings is very wide, they are built everywhere, especially in cities, with well-developed industrial infrastructure. The rationality of the structure of administrative buildings, is responsible for the ideology of the customer, so they differ not only to height, but also with their architectural "silhouettes." And if, in small cities, according to modern standards, typical projects are applied, then large industrial centers and megalopolises no longer want to use re-use projects. In this connection, the design of office and administrative buildings is constantly being improved. This contributes to economic stability and high consumer demand. The classification of administrative buildings varies in many signs:

In determining the scope of work on the design of office and administrative buildings, it is necessary to take into account the number of administrative and management personnel and employees of material and technical services. Modern trends in the design of office and administrative buildings are based on their multifunctionality, therefore, there are more and more customers on the construction market that are interested in separate office and administrative complexes. The advantage of complexes is indisputable, because these are whole zones of the management, administrative, public, political and cultural life of urban institutions. Administrative and office complexes require a special labor organization to maintain communication with the outside world, modern engineering networks, pedestrian and transport schemes, the need for which is calculated, based on the individual characteristics of the order. Our company's specialists are engaged in designing office and administrative buildings of various complexity. We are constantly improving our projects that you can also evaluate in the "Our Objects" heading. In addition, we are ready to answer all your questions on the phone or at a personal meeting! We look forward to collaborating!

The use of a system-structural approach allows us to consider the design of office and administrative buildings as a interrelated process. But, nevertheless, let's touch the concept of "office building" before proceeding to the principles of the design. Office building is an excellent solution for any business. The office stores paper, take customers, in general, are engaged in all the necessary business processes. Therefore, the construction of office buildings from metal structures, to date, implies classification by classes:

• class A +++ - the highest quality buildings located mainly in the central regions of the city, corresponding to the competent constructive, planning, architectural and engineering solutions. For the most part, office buildings of this class can be called business centers, with an extended infrastructure, author's design, cafe, bar, restaurant, parking and protected area equipped with professional safety facilities.
• class A is a standard office building, with high service indicators that are fully appropriate to the individual needs of the customer. Office buildings of this class are characterized by rational layout, floor height at least 3.6 meters and the presence of a cafeteria or restaurant. Like the buildings of class A +++, class A offices are equipped with places on a guarded car park and modern security systems.
• the class in the buildings of the new building, with significantly low quality rates or renovated (repaired) buildings, earlier buildings, in the class A standard, but differing from them not too effective planning and large number of offices with small windows, or their absence.
• class C - buildings characterized by an abundance of bearing walls and corridors, with non-interrupted floors. The class C office buildings can also include the class B buildings in which there are lack of one or two qualitative indicators, and slightly inferior to them in secondary parameters.

Designing office and administrative buildings, in some species determines the individuality of the building in shape. But many compositional signs are not subject to a tough classification. Therefore, we will not consider the classification of office and administrative buildings in shape, and immediately proceed to consider some moments of designing office and administrative buildings:

• The choice of land for the construction of office and administrative buildings is usually not difficult. Because it provides for landscape works, a lawn device and other elements of improvement and gardening of the territory.
• The volume-planning composition, with the distribution of rooms (cabinets, offices) is determined by the structure of office and administrative buildings. This item, in the design of office and administrative buildings, is advisable to consider, based on the specific conditions of the order.
• The layout of floors depends on the accommodation scheme of employees. Designing office and administrative buildings sometimes mixed planns, so in large spaces of buildings there are various passages to workplaces, sometimes characterized by rather unexpected structural solutions. According to the partitioning of space, the layout may be rigid (constant) and flexible (changing).
• Designing office and administrative buildings, where the optimal high-rise design is selected for ease of operation, it is always characterized by the cost. At the same time, from constructive considerations, compact office and administrative buildings, allow you to more rationally use our area than buildings with a height of 20-30 floors. And when designing office and administrative buildings more than 60 and floors, the presence of high-speed elevators is taken into account, therefore, after time, there are no longer any changes in the layout.
• An architectural image is a very important point in the design of office and administrative buildings, which is worth paying special attention. As we have already written in the "Encyclopedia of Construction", the architecture forms the appearance of the city, so the construction of office and administrative buildings should correspond not only to the aesthetic tasks of the customer, but also to meet the harmonious requirements of the urban planning plan. That is why the design of office and administrative buildings is not an easy task, especially for those who do not understand the regional specificity of construction.

All other moments of designing office and administrative buildings also need "pre-project work", at the project "Project" and "Working Documentation", which we gave detailed information in the "Encyclopedia of Construction" heading. If you are interested in a more significant amount of information on this topic, you can independently find it there and read.

If you have difficulty choosing a draft office or administrative building, you can call us by phone and get advice from experts. For its part, we are pleased to offer you designing office and administrative buildings of any classification. Also, we sell full-quality office and administrative buildings, certain qualitative characteristics and parameters that are beneficial not only worth the cost of work, external expressiveness, but also construction periods. Call! We will fulfill your order quality and fast!

Ensuring the quality of the office of the office largely depends on the choice of its architectural, constructive and planning solution. Competent design of an office building is the best opportunity to implement business tasks defined by its construction and operation.

The company "Southern Quality Center" performs a comprehensive design of office buildings from initial counseling prior to the development of working documentation. At any time are ready to join the work and take on the decision of all questions to the coordination of the project in the relevant instances.

Features of the design of office buildings

The sign of a good office is its versatility and mobility in terms of quick change of functions. It must provide optimal conditions for work and communication. Designing an office building provides not only internal planning, but also the organization of access roads, parking, street lighting, fencing systems. At the same time, the building and the external design must match the general ensemble of urban development.

Development of the office building project is carried out with the following factors:

• ways to create an office - from scratch or by reconstruction of the structure;
• constructive features of the future structures;
• location of the land plot, its transport accessibility, the need to arrange parking spaces;
• connectivity to engineering networks and communications systems;
• the necessary height and depth of the floors;
• creation of fire-fighting, security systems, etc.

Our company provides modern technological approaches to design, follows the building materials market and new construction technologies. We offer competent engineering solutions and original planning options that meet state standards and customer requirements.

1. Norms and Snip Design

   The design of an office building should be directed to optimizing its operation and obtaining an economic effect with maximum comfort and safety. For this, the project must fully comply with all building standards, the requirements of sanitary and fire regulations.

   When developing an office building project necessarily the provisions of the following regulatory documents are taken into account:

   • Urban planning code of the Russian Federation;
   • Snip:
     • 2.07.01-89 "Urban planning";
     • 31-06-2009 "Public buildings and structures";
     • 23-05-95 "Lighting";
     • 41-01-2003 "Heating, ventilation, air conditioning";
     • 2.04.01-85 "Water pipe and sewage";
     • 21-02-99 "Parking of cars";
   • JV (ruled vaults):
     • 31-108-2002 "Gerbowers";
     • 31-110-2003 "Design and installation of electrical installations";
   • GOST:
     • 12.1.004-91 "Fire safety";
     • 25772-83 "Fencing of stairs, balconies, roofs";
     • 30494-96 "Microclimate in the premises";
   • SanPine - hygienic requirements:
     • 2.2.1 / 2.1.1.1278-03 - to lighting buildings;
     • 2.2.1 / 2.1.1.1076-01 - to the insolation of buildings and territories;
   • Law No. 123-FZ "TP on Fire Safety Requirements".

   Office buildings are usually located in the city center and they are subject to special requirements in terms of architecture. Therefore, their projects are necessarily coordinated with architectural and urban-planning organizations.

   Design of offices refers to the number of main activities of the company "Southern Quality Center" company. Our design solutions are based on a thorough fulfillment of customer requirements and always meet all current standards and rules for construction.

The result of the design of an office building is a large package of documents that permits and ensures construction work. A well-designed office takes into account all the details - from a comfortable parking to a comfortable operation of all rooms.

The company "Southern Quality Center" is always aimed at the optimal result. We try to minimize the cost of the office, offering unique solutions to create safe, practical and convenient conditions for its functioning. Our projects work on the image of the customer's company and its profits.

Development of office buildings - It is from the most competitive segments of the sector of the development. The development of the office building is engaged in companies in various sizes: from a company consisting of one person to major international developers and mortgage investment trusts (Reits). Just as diverse and firms. Using offices, and room-made - from offices for manuals (Executive Office) with an area of \u200b\u200b500 square meters (46.5 sq.m) and less than urban and suburban complexes with a total area of \u200b\u200bseveral million square feet.

In this chapter, we will talk about those types of office buildings that are most often building novice developers - buildings worth not more than $ 10,000,000 and an area, as a rule, from 5,000 to 100,000 kb, feet (465 - 9,300 sq.m) . In the development of small office buildings and major office complexes, in essence, it is necessary to solve the same and the same questions, although big scales mean high time spending. Specially noted those cases where the prospects and problems of the development of large and small office projects differ significantly.

Developers of office buildings are usually starting with the market analysis or ledator search, although in some cases the developer is looking for opportunities for the use of his area that is most suitable for the development of office buildings. Developers who work "on their risk". Choose the target market, find a suitable area, design the building, find basic tenants. Receive the necessary source-permits, organize funding, build a building and rent it. Developers, who already have a tenant, build a building in accordance with the requirements of the tenant.

Classification of office buildings
Usually office buildings are classified by class, type, nature of the use, type of property and location.
Class. Perhaps the main distinguishing property of the office premises is their quality, or class. The quality of the building is determined by many factors, including the date of construction of the building, its location used by construction materials, building engineering systems, additional amenities, rent and lease conditions, expulsion, management and categories of tenants. Usually office premises are divided by sodium basic categories:

Class A. Buildings of investment attractiveness. They are distinguished by an excellent location and first-class design, engineering systems, additional facilities and control. In the buildings of class and the highest rental on the market, and they remove the offices of solvent tenants. These are usually new buildings with high competitiveness, although sometimes older buildings reconstruct and position as a class A. real estate in some markets allocate a separate class A +. These are mainly unique, outstanding buildings, or buildings built on projects recognized architects. Buildings of this kind are local attractions and are distinguished by excellent architecture, construction materials, location and management.

Class V. Qualitatively built buildings in good condition, with advantageous location, control and not obsolete functional equipment. Classroom office rooms are usually stirred in well-positioned and well-preserved old buildings.

Class S.. The nammodernized buildings that were built much earlier than the buildings of class A and B. The functional equipment of the class of class C is often obsolete, and such buildings are located in less attractive places compared to the buildings of class A and V.
Type of building. But the type of building allocate the following categories of office buildings:
Multi-storey - usually more than 15 floors; »Middle floor - from 4 to 15 floors;
Low-rise - from i to 3 floors;
Office buildings with adjacent park - buildings
height from one to five floors and rich
Landscape in the surrounding area;

Buildings for research and development work - usually this buildings in one or two floors. About 50% of their area are given under offices and laboratories, which use "dry" research methods; The rest is bad - under workshops, warehouses and, possibly, small production (Combined - office and industrial buildings - destination);
Buildings Combined appointments - single or two-storey buildings, in which warehouses and premises for small production can be located along with offices.

The nature of the use and type of property. Office buildings can also be classified depending on their user and the owner. Available in the building may occupy one or more companies. The company that takes all the premises in the building can rent it from the owner or acquire property. In the latter case, this is called the building occupied by the owner (OCNER OCCUPIED).

The building designed and built for a particular company that occupies all or practically all the premises is called the Development to order (Build to $ Uit Development). The construction of a building designed for one or more companies, and built in the absence of obligations on the part of the future tenant or the owner, is considered to be a construction for its own risk (Spec Building).

Location. In most cities, at least four types of business areas differ in location can be distinguished, and for each location is characterized by their physical parameters of offices and typical users.
Central business district of the city. In most major cities, the greatest concentration of office buildings is achieved in the central business district of the city (Central Business District. CBD). Although the share of office space located in the central business district, in most Yurodov decreases. By 1999, the share of office space located in the central business areas of cities decreased to 58%, while the proportion of office space. Located in the suburbs, increased to 42%.: Among typical tenants of office premises in the business part of the city, law firms, insurance companies and financial institutions, which are needed by high-quality prestigious premises.

Suburbs. The increasing decentralization of offices in the last 20 years has led to a greater variety of options for the location of office buildings outside the city center. Groups of office buildings of various sizes are separate or part of business areas, often arranged near the intersection of motorways or major suburban shopping centers in the midst of the residential building of low density.

In the suburbs there are office buildings of small and medium storeys with a lower rental pay, than in the cecheralyuy business part Yoodi. These buildings usually include offices of small companies, regional offices and organizations working in the service sector, which do not need to have their own offices in CBD. However, now in the suburbs, it is increasingly and the cup of large legal and accounting firms and corporations. As a result, there has been a gradual decrease in differences in the image, the quality of construction and even the size of the rent between the central business areas of cities and the main places of the location of office buildings in the suburbs.
District offices. Small office-sites are often located in suburban areas at a distance from the main business Petrov and service! The needs of local residents, providing premises for organizations working "services of services or specializing in other activities. District offices can be located in district shopping centers or in separate buildings.
Business people. Office premises often
Located in business parks -
Multifunctional complexes consisting of several buildings p destined for various uses - from small production before offices. Square occupied by a business park. It can be from several acres to several hundred acres N more, so they are usually located in suburban areas. As a rule, the composition of business parks includes small and medium office buildings with a height of one to three floors.

Office buildings of research organizations and buildings Combined appointments, in which you can also place the laboratories and allocate some area under storage facilities, usually arranged in business parks.
Over the past 20 years, an increase in the number of office buildings * outside the traditional places of their location was observed.

Criteria Classification of Office Buildings

In a study conducted by Brookings Institution, Robert Leng discovered that a significant amount of development of office buildings was performed on highly dispersed areas with a total area of \u200b\u200bless than 5 million square meters (465,000 sq.m). These small groups of office buildings, called disseminated business center, do not have clearly defined borders and can be located in extensive territories.

Designing office buildings, like any other design in construction, begins with the technical task provided by the Customer, and then passes all the stages of design, starting from the collection of initial and permitting documentation and engineering surveys and ending with the design of the project (undergoing expertise) and working documentation. In terms of the technical task, all significant factors distinguish the office space (building) are reflected from the premises with other specifics (apartments, shops, shops, etc.). The design of offices should take into account the requirements of SNiP, all the workers' needs of the management personnel of the organization and create an attractive image of an office in the eyes of potential tenants, which is reflected in the scale of classes of office and administrative buildings.

Classification of office premises and administrative buildings

The premises of office buildings on the principle of functionality are the following types:

• rooms for the placement of structural divisions of the organization,
• cabinets of managers,
• information and technical group of premises, which includes libraries, archives, information and computing halls with office equipment (where, for example, the design of ventilation requires a special approach),
• conference rooms and meeting rooms,
• group of premises for organizing buildings service functions: Wardrobe, Reception area, Equipped guard facilities, Lobby, catering, honeycompanies, "Foods", Bathrooms, etc.,
• technical Group: Electrical, boiler room, ventilation chambers.

In the layout of buildings, these premises and indoor zones can be located both by "hard" (more often - typical) option that does not allow significant changes in the choice of employees of functional zones and on a "soft" version involving the variability in the distribution of divisions and block staff . The second option is now used much more often, because it allows you to make it possible to manage the calculations related to water consumption, electricity, heating, etc. In addition, this approach in principle more adequately meets the requirements of time in matters and communicability.

All these factors, including communication systems, alarm systems, dispatching engineering equipment and an integrated electrical labot network, affect the assessment of the office building, which is expressed in the classification. In addition, the office of the office building is influenced by the location of the office and the development of infrastructure, the quality of building materials and the installed security systems. In the hierarchy of classes of office buildings 4 levels are allocated:

1. Class a +++. It includes buildings built with the use of M high-quality materials, usually placed in the central part of the city. This class includes business centers equipped with an extended infrastructure, dots (bars, restaurants, cafes), parking with protection, demonstration and conference rooms, modern security systems. Design of offices in buildings of this class, as a rule, is distinguished by unique features.
2. Class A.. This class is assigned by standard office buildings for which the design of office premises was also carried out taking into account the high maintenance indicators, the requirements of rational planning from the height of the floor from 3.5 meters and above, the availability of security systems, parking and catering points. However, an individual approach in the design here, as in the previous case, is not pronounced.
3. Class B.. These buildings include both new, but low-quality buildings and renovated buildings previously related to the class A, but after rearrangements (repair) devoid of effective rational planning. Such a building contains many small office space with small windows or without them.
4. Class S.. The peculiarity of this class is a plurality of bearing walls and a large number of corridors (transitions), which greatly makes it difficult to restructure and increase the space during repair.

The parameters listed above are also important because the construction project must correspond to the terms of profitability, profitability of profitability for the investor. And such economic efficiency is achieved due to the balance of minimization of operating costs and increase the attractiveness of the office object in the eyes of potential shifters. The attractiveness increases both by improving the functionality of the premises, and by the improvement of the aesthetic designer approach.

Actual factors in the design of professional offices

Design of offices takes into account all the factors meaningful when erecting an office center:

• construction, architectural, constructive, engineering norms, defined SNiP and other rules that establish rules;
• features of perception of the target audience (including attractiveness for tenants and customer wishes);
• convenience of functional zones that ensure the efficiency of the workflow;
• energy efficiency of the object and its economic feasibility.

At the same time, any building built in the urban art should also be correlated with the urban planning plan.

The project should show how future the future business center will "fit" in an existing building, taking into account the neighboring monuments of architecture and historical and cultural heritage, lines of high-voltage wires, gas pipeline, communications, etc.

Architectural and Designer Image

Any serious customer company makes special requirements for the appearance of the office building, which should not just differ from the house with the presence of residential apartments, but to work out the image plan of the object's perception, since the appearance of the building becomes an analogue of the "face" of the company who has stolen the office in the business center . Ideally, the individual office design should reflect the specifics of a particular company. This requirement, as a rule, leads to the creation of a recognizable corporate interior and an exterior of the office.

But before smaller firms, too, the task is to stand out from among competitors, while maintaining their individuality. Therefore, a well-equipped office center should provide a variable approach to an office image with the preservation of the functional universality of the object.

Layout and functional solutions

Design solutions in the construction of office buildings, first of all, rely on the requirements of the Customer, indicated in the technical specifications, but this is not the detriment of the principles of the optimal organization of employees and visitors' streams.

In this regard, there are three conventional types of planning solutions for business centers in practice:

• cabinet type
• type "Open space",
• combined type.

Work offices of units can be partially temporarily unified or separated to solve local tasks in the event of the control system reorganization. Mobility of such an office becomes its additional plus.

Special studies demonstrate a constant increase in the share of zones (premises) intended for meetings (business negotiations), which, with competent planning, constitute at least 30% of the area of \u200b\u200bthe entire office. If you guide the European tradition, it should be borne in mind that negotiations of various types of ordinary employees spend about 25% of working time, middle-level managers - approximately 50% of the time, and senior executives - about 75%. Information exchange - communication, training - come to the forefront among all types of office activities, which causes the need for special planning and technological solutions.

Traditional intercoms are complemented in offices multifunctional, quickly transformed (changeable without repair) with premises in which conferences and seminars can be held, and trainings. At the same time, the designer should also provide for the features of the use of technical equipment of the Overhead, Meltimedia and Slide Projectors, Flip Charts, Graphic Walls, Video and Interactive Boards and Other Equipment.

About 80% of all innovations for offices (including overhaul) are focused on improving and facilitating communication between people. For example, for various kinds of negotiations, separate "islands" are created, equipped with high tables, followed by standing, which provides a more dynamic nature of the conversation. With the same purpose, the so-called "Coffee" is designed - an intermediate version between the cafe and the office. From the dining room or cafe, it is also distinguished by the immediate proximity of the location to the workplace. His task is to create the possibilities of informal communication "for a cup of coffee", without going beyond the workflow.

Office engineering

Business Center Engineering Includes:

• air conditioning and ventilation system, which is noticeably different from the ventilation of apartments,
• power supply and lighting,
• water pipe with hot and cold water,
• sewer
• internet systems, television, telephone,
• security and fire alarm.

When designing an office building to save electricity, the reserves of natural light should be used as much as possible, to reduce air conditioning costs - to provide a powerful system of natural ventilation, and to minimize heating expenses - to put into the project the use of modern thermal insulation technologies.

High-altitude office buildings (from 60 floors and higher), in addition to increasing the share of expenditures on engineering systems, differ by another complexity: they should include high-speed elevators, which often creates difficulties for subsequent substantial redevelopment.

Regulatory requirements for offices

When designing, first of all, the rules for SNiP 31-05-2003 are taken into account. Since 2013, the arrangement of the rules 118.13330.2012 - the updated edition of SNiP 31-06-2009. The document contains norms for groups of buildings and premises that have common (unifying) volume-planning and functional signs. In particular, such buildings and premises are intended mainly for mental labor and are not related to the production area of \u200b\u200bactivity (that is, differ from buildings for the production of material values \u200b\u200band services, from apartments, etc.).

The basic requirements of SNiP include:

• Compliance with the height of premises, which should not be less than 3 meters. The exception is made for small offices that are placed in residential buildings with apartments, in factory offices with administrative and domestic structures. Here, the height of office premises may correspond to the height-adopted buildings.
• Compliance with the height of halls and corridors, which should not be less than 2.4 meters (in the case of similar exceptions - 2.2 meters).
• Compliance with the width of corridors is not less than 1.2 meters at a 10-meter length, no less than 1.5 meters - at a maximum of 10 meters the length of the corridor, at least 2.4 meters in the case of using the corridor as an expectation room.

In addition, office space is allowed to be placed in the ground floors.

What processes should occur in the company's workspace for its effective functioning? First of all, it is necessary that ordinary employees perform their tasks. Another important aspect is executive functions.

It is not necessary to forget that for normal operation of a group of people, they need to ensure the opportunity to implement their basic needs. It is usually unable to do without a group of utility rooms. Warehouses, archives, server - a normal labor process without them to establish not easy.

Workspace

For each of the employees, it should be provided with a separate place at the table. According to the current construction standards, one person accounts for an area of \u200b\u200bat least 4.5 m2. Thus, most of the office of a large company usually occupies the work area.

Executive functions

The company's office must make a favorable impression on suppliers, potential customers, business partners. Therefore, the place intended for meetings with them plays an important role. It can be negotiated, meeting room, office manager, hall. The interior of these parts of the office is usually worked out especially carefully.

Auxiliary premises

It is necessary to somehow solve the needs of employees of the company in issues of hygiene, the ability to eat and relax a bit. Mandatory elements of the office must be a kitchen, bathrooms.

The recreation area is not always present in modern companies. This is often saved. However, recent studies have shown that its presence is positively affected by the labor productivity of employees.

Ways to organize a working space

As mentioned above, a business space eats most of the office area. From the point of view of the planning, it can be solved in different ways. The most common option is the open-plan offices that are also called Open-Space.

Competition, they traditionally make up reminding cells of the building, where for each department there is its own office. In state institutions, this approach is dominated.

Pluses of open planning

Among the undoubted advantages of Open-Space call the simplicity of communications during the workflow. It is believed that in such an environment, employees are easier to agree, and this positively affects the quality of the final product. However, the justice of this opinion has doubts.

In fact, there are two open-plan characteristics, which make it particularly attractive in the eyes of the employer. First, it is simplicity of control. When all employees are constantly in sight, they are significantly more difficult to lean from work.

Secondly, Open-Space allows you to organize jobs for more people to organize workplaces for more people. Office partitions occupy not so little space. Consequently, open planning is more economical. In any case, at the design and construction phase.

Cons Open-Space

The complete absence of personal borders, constant noise and buses are factors that reduce labor productivity. Studies have shown that in such an atmosphere it falls by 15%.

Partially the oppressive impact of an open working space on the psyche can be compensated by the device for recreation areas. On the photo planning of offices designed by leading world designers, you can see the scum scattered everywhere, soft lounges, bringing a variety of monotonous and strict business environment.

Another way to reduce the degree of tension is the use of eco-style elements implying the use of natural material, vegetation, as part of visual design. It is believed that such an environment is perceived by people as a more natural.

Another significant disadvantage of open space is the absence of obstacles to spread diseases transmitted by air-droplet.

Office Cabinet layout: arguments "For" and "Against"

Currently, the presence of your own office is perceived by the evidence of high status, practically luxury. This allows you to form inside the appropriate conditions for you contributing to the most efficient work. Personal accounts have and minus - the difficulty of communication with other employees of the company.

A completely different situation is a space consisting of a group of individual cabinets for each department. Thus, it is possible to effectively interact within the department. In addition, it is relatively difficult to achieve an acceptable atmosphere for work.

The lack of such a planning structure is only two. The first has already mentioned earlier. It lies in the fact that the organization of individual cabinets reduces the useful area.

The second is that firms, as a rule, develop and change over time. The number and composition of the departments is transformed. And the planning, which at the beginning best reflected the organization approached and contributed to its effectiveness with time it turns out to be inconvenient.

Search alternatives

The cellular structure from endless isolated cabinets and Open-Space is two extremes. In real life, the combination in one or another proportion of these two types of organization of space is more often. In other words, a mixed office layout is a solution that allows you to use the best features of both options, minimizing their cons.

Some departments are isolated, others are combined, if it allows the specificity of internal production processes. At the same time, the most thin or glass partitions are used. Recently, the mobile transformable walls can be seen more and more often in the offices, which are easily installed and just cleaned.

Basic rules for organizing an office planning space

The question of which there should be a work area is complex and ambiguous. Different companies respond to it in their own way. That is why often developers prefer to completely give the solution to this problem in the hands of the company.

And this is the reason why the free post plan is currently so popular - that is, an extensive territory without partitions, where only the position of the bathrooms and vertical communications is rigidly fixed. The rest of the company's owner is free to decide how to organize planning.

At the same time, it should be forgotten about several basic principles of forming the interior of this type of premises. First, the overall dimensions and configuration of the core zone, as a rule, do not make it so that all rooms have natural lighting.

It is important that they have work spaces, they are accounts or an open plan zone. But for intercom, bathrooms, kitchens, meeting rooms, archives it is optional.

Secondly, bright color accents in a place designed to work are not always appropriate. They can serve as an additional irritant factor.

However, large rooms without accents in the design also affect the psyche oppressing, seem monotonous. Here you need to somehow find the face, Introducing the color extremely neatly. This can be done in the intercom, lounge zones, the lobby.

Photo planning office