Area per Person
Type of Building Type of Room
(m2) (ft2)
Apartments 100 - 400
Lecture room 0.6
Library 5
Assembly building Cinema 0.6
Concert hall 0.6
Theatre 0.6
Banks 50 - 150
Bars 15 - 50
Cafeterias 10 - 50
Churches 5 - 20
Clubhouses 15 - 50
Cocktail Lounges 15 - 50
Computer Rooms 80 - 150
Court Houses 50 - 150
Dental Centers Clinic and Offices 50 - 150
Department Stores 15 - 75
Dining Halls 10 - 50
Drug Store 15 - 50
Fire Stations 100 - 500
Rooms 5
Hotels Lobby 0.6
Assembly room 1.5
General Areas 50 - 150
Hospitals
Patient Rooms 80 - 150
Kindergarten 2-3
Kitchens 50 - 150
Libraries 30 - 100
Luncheonettes 10 - 50
Lunch Rooms 10 - 50
Malls 50 - 100
Medical Centers Clinic and Offices 50 - 150
Public Spaces 100 - 200
Motels
Guest Rooms, Dormitories 100 - 200
Municipal Buildings 50 - 150
Museums 30 - 100
Nightclubs 15 - 50
Nursing Home Patient Rooms 80 - 150
Offices Single office 10
Meeting room 1.5
Police Stations 100 - 500
Post Offices 100 - 500
Precision Manufacturing 100 - 300
Residential 200 - 600
With service 1.5
Restaurant
Without service 1
Retail Stores 15 - 75
Lecture rooms 0.6
Class rooms 2
Schools
Corridors 2
Laboratory 3
Retail 2
Shops
Supermarkets 2
Gymnasium 1.5
Sports
Swimming pools 4
Supermarkets 50 - 100
Taverns 15 - 50
Town Halls 50 - 150