On 26/11/2013 19:40, Bill Wright wrote:
charles wrote:

I have a proposal (based on working in ba=rand new buildings) that
members
of that profession should be compelled to live or work, as
appropriate, for at least 6 months in any building they have designed.


I found the TV/sat socket in one corner of each largish room; the
nearest power point in the opposite corner.

There's a hospital where the room layout was planned with no regard for
the internal steel columns. Result: some rooms can't be used because the
boxed-in column almost fills the space behind the door.

Similar to the car parks where 2 out of 3 spaces have a column in them
or some spaces have a bollard or trolley park right on the line, yet
these spaces are no wider than the rest, so no-one can position vehicles
in the spaces and be able to open doors both sides.

At the local shopping centre, the car park had an entrance/exit that was
too narrow and too sharp, so a vehicle exiting (sharp left) could not do
so without crossing over the centre line of the road. If a vehicle was
waiting to come out, another could not come in at the same time, but the
queue of vehicles waiting to come in made it impossible for vehicles to
come out! For years everyone complained about it. Eventually they
changed the car park layout, moved the entrance a few feet ... and built
the same problem in all over again!

At another place the room layout ignores the positions of the windows.

Pillars in front of the windows?

Where I am working now, the entrances to the toilets on each floor have
two doors one after the other - so close together that they've had to
put warning signs on to avoid accidents. The inner door also hits anyone
that is using the hand-dryer and due to the washbasins and the unit they
are intalled into, the person drying their hands cannot stand to one
side. Anyone using the washbasins prevents access to the toilet cubicles.

SteveW