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Everything about Open plan
Floor plan that makes use of large open spaces
Open plan is the generic term used in architectural and interior design for any floor plan that makes use of large, open spaces and minimizes the use of small, enclosed rooms such as private offices. The term can also refer to landscaping of housing estates, business parks, etc., in which there are no defined property boundaries, such as hedges, fences, or walls. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Open planA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Lisocabtagene maraleucel versus standard of care with salvage chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation as second-line treatment in patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma (TRANSFORM): results from an interim analysis of an open-label, randomised, phase 3 trialInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Art of WarThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: O-Plan: The open planning architectureCited 161 times
- Go sideways: OfficeA closely related topic
- Go sideways: CubicleA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
O-Plan: The open planning architecture
The Open-Plan Office
A comparative field study of indoor environmental quality in two types of open-plan offices: Open-plan administrative offices and open-plan research offices
Open-plan office noise
Users' privacy preferences in open plan offices
Design modification in an open-plan school.
Open Plan — Open Education?
Open‐plan measures determine facilities space management
🆕 Influential since 2022
Lisocabtagene maraleucel versus standard of care with salvage chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation as second-line treatment in patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma (TRANSFORM): results from an interim analysis of an open-label, randomised, phase 3 trial
Abemaciclib plus endocrine therapy for hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative, node-positive, high-risk early breast cancer (monarchE): results from a preplanned interim analysis of a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial
The new ITER baseline, research plan and open R&D issues
Office soundscape assessment: A model of acoustic environment perception in open-plan offices
Automating modular open-plan office layouts with performance-based generative design
📚 Books worth reading
The Art of War孙武 (Sun Tzu) · 1900
Principles of Anatomy and PhysiologyGerard J. Tortora, Bryan H. Derrickson · 1975
SummerhillA. S. Neill · 1926
The Road to SerfdomFriedrich A. von Hayek · 1944
Exploring corporate strategyGerry Johnson, Kevan Scholes · 1983
Design and analysis of experimentsDouglas C. Montgomery · 1976
Higher Education Through Open and Distance LearningKeith Harry · 1999
Life Between BuildingsJan Gehl · 1971
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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- Office landscape Office landscape (German: Bürolandschaft/Großraumbüro) was an early (1950s) movement in open plan office space planning that typically used irregular geometry…
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