Offices: A Briefing and Design Guide (Butterworth Architecture Design and Development Guides)

This book will provide both clients and designers with a disciplined approach to the design of offices containing high technology equipment. The detailed information and guidance given leads the reader step-by-step through the necessary thought processes, the gathering of information and the decision making in the most logical and effective way to ensure that nothing is forgotten. The main features of the book are - comprehensive checklists, to be used by both client and design team, first to create a brief and then to envolve a design; diagrammatic layouts and photographs showing alternative approaches; and lists of references directing the reader to more detailed sources.