Clinics
Reception Furniture Planning for Clinics
Specify the occupied size, operating clearance and route into the building before choosing furniture by catalogue dimensions.
Explore the ideas
Compare the options
- Set the brief
- Use templates at the size of the actual furniture. Include seated users, open drawers and reclined positions where relevant.
- Compare
- Decide which items need to move independently and which benefit from built-in anchoring.
- Before buying
- Confirm that the largest pieces can turn at the entrance, lift lobby and corridor, or specify assembly in place.
Worked example
A family wants a console and bench in a foyer, but the lift lobby door opens close to the apartment entrance.
Use a narrow console with rounded corners and a bench that tucks fully beneath it. Measure the entry door at full swing and test carrying a bulky delivery past the furniture.
How to test it
Overlay the furniture in its stored and in-use positions, then check both against the measured plan.
Apply it to this space
- Layout
- Place reception in sight of the entry and create a modest offset between the queue and waiting seats.
- Detail
- Use a cleanable counter surface and a lower, quieter conversation position away from the queue.
- Trade-off
- More counter length supports several staff but can feel institutional.
- Listen from the nearest waiting seat
- Check the queue leaves the entrance clear
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