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Office Connections

Opening context:
Work Community, Self-Governing Workshops and Offices, Small Services without Red Tape

Conflict

If two parts of an office are too far apart, people will not more between them as often as they need to; and if they are more than one floor apart, there will be almost no communication between the two.

Resolution

To establish distances between departments, calculate the number of trips per day made between each two departments; get the “nuisance distance” from the graph above; then make sure that the physical distance between the two departments is less than the nuisance distance. Reckon one flight of starts as about 100 feet, and two flights of stairs as about 300 feet.

Closing context:
Four-Story Limit, Building Complex, Open Stairs, Building Thoroughfare, Family of Entrances