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Office Structure
Office Layouts
Interior Design considerations
Furniture and floors
Lighting, Walls, and Ceilings
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This type of office structure is less formal and includes more teamwork.
What is new office structure
100
A type of office plan that contains private offices with full height walls.
What is a closed office plan
100
In an office, an Interior Designer must consider the following things before planning the space.
What is the image, location, size, corporate culture
100
This type of flooring helps absorb sound and should be used in offices where there is a lot of noise
What is carpet
100
This type of lighting can be hard on the eyes and should be used in main areas but not necessarily work areas. Fluorescent lighting is an example.
What is ambient lighting
200
The increase of this has greatly impacted office designs and the needs of office buildings.
What is technology
200
The type of office plan that uses workstations without walls contains designs that accommodate different types of work styles.
What is an open office plan
200
The office layout needs to be efficient and the ID needs to consider this, how people get around, when designing the layout.
What is traffic pattern
200
This type of office furniture is moveable
What is systems furniture
200
A type of lighting that lights up a specific place for a specific task.
What is task lighting.
300
Given the quickly changing atmosphere of offices, Interior Designers must be able to design a space that is _____________
What is flexible
300
The type of office structure that works best with a traditional office structure.
What is modified open or closed.
300
The designer needs to balance two things when designing hotels, which are...
What are creating a room that is attractive yet cost effective
300
A problem with carpet in offices or hotels is:
What is wear and tear
300
This type of ceiling is beneficial because it contains the noise more than an open ceiling.
What is a dropped ceiling
400
In this type of business structure, there is a board of directors who are in charge of a CEO who is in charge of VPs of each department.
What is traditional structure
400
A modified open office plan look like this
What is a combination of closed offices and open offices
400
These are three hotel traffic patterns
What is double-loaded slab, atrium, and rectangular tower
400
This is a problem with upgrading even a small item in every hotel room.
What is may cost thousands of dollars.
400
The four types of lighting in hotels are, along with an explanation of each, are
What is general lighting (for meeting spaces and traffic movement), accent lighting (calls attention to specific areas - lobby bar), sparkle lighting (used to create special effects and give atmosphere to the room) and performance lighting (used where there is live entertainment).
500
The new office structure has less supervisors and more responsibility is placed on the worker. This is called...
What is delayering
500
This is the description of an office plan that best fits the following scenario: Mr. Smith runs a large office building. He is the CEO and has 3 VPs that manage the rest of the staff. He needs privacy but also wants to instill the need for teamwork. He believes that a happy employee is a productive employee so his space is planned around that.
500
Because the lobby sets the mood for the whole hotel experience, what can the ID do to impress the guests
What is use beautiful wood on front desk and high quality items for walls, upholstery, and surfaces.
500
The two main places in a hotel that an ID needs to think about furniture are
What is lobby and guest rooms.
500
This is the biggest consideration regarding lighting that an ID needs to be aware of.
What is energy conservation