Careful Spaces topic
Staff-side design
Sightlines, stations, storage, and back-of-house flow: the environment as the second staff.
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Back-of-House Collisions: When Service Flow Crosses Resident LifeCarts, deliveries, trash runs, and laundry share corridors with residents' daily lives. Mapping the service circulation, separating the streams, and scheduling what design can't separate.
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The Nurse Station Question: Fortress, Desk, or Nothing at AllThe traditional nurse station is the most contested square footage in care design. What the fortress actually does, what replaces it in household models, and how to decentralize without losing the functions.