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