Circulation to Foster Chance Encounters

An office floor plan with designed circulation to create accidental encounters. The pantry, printing area, and restrooms are placed on essential paths between different departments, so people from different teams will meet several times a day; there are one or two enlarged areas on the main circulation path with standing-height counters and a few stools, where people can stop for a three-minute chat. The circulation is a loop, not a dead end. Avoid: placing the pantry in a corner dead end, having each department with its own independent circulation that doesn't intersect, making corridors purely for passing through, or having no places to stop along the circulation path.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個動線經過設計的辦公平面。茶水間、影印區與洗手間被放在不同部門之間的必經路徑上,因此不同團隊的人一天會遇到好幾次;主動線上有一兩處放大的區域,有站立高度的檯面與幾張凳子,可以停下來講三分鐘的話。動線是一條環,不是死巷。避免:把茶水間設在角落的死路、讓每個部門有自己獨立的動線互不交會、把走道做成純粹通過的走廊、讓動線上沒有可以停留的位置。