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Personal Space: The Behavioral Basis of Design

Author
Robert Sommer
Year
2008
An orange upholstered chair with metal legs on a teal-and-white diamond-patterned floor.
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Sommer's classic on how people actually inhabit the spaces built for them — privacy, crowding, the small ecology of a room, across airports, hospitals and schools. Early, rigorous grounding for the SDF's Humans component: behaviour as design evidence.

Where to find it

In the framework

  • Human Component
  • Institutional · facet
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