Private Office — key plans — Woodfine Projects

Private Office is a separate use type from Professional Office. Each Private Office suite opens directly onto the shared building corridor — there is no internal bilateral corridor within the Private Office floor area. The tenant is typically an individual professional rather than a firm. Suite geometry is computed using the Building Width Calculator and the per-use-type values catalogued in zone depths per use type; the Key Plans feed the Tile system and the floor plate methodology.

[edit]The three sizes

Size	Code	Area (m²)	Area (SF)	Façade frontage
Small	PO-1	30	325	13'-5" (4.09 m)
Medium	PO-2	43	465	19'-3" (5.87 m)
Large	PO-3	64	685	28'-6" (8.69 m)

Total when stacked side-by-side: 137 m² / 1,475 SF.

[edit]Zone vocabulary

Zone	Depth	Note
Zone 1 — Habitat	5.9944 m (19'-8")	Flagged for review at final [[topic-bim-key-plans-index
Zone 2 — Magazine	1.3716 m (4'-6")	Shallow storage; minimal shared storage compared with multi-person suites
Zone 3 — Corridor	0 m	None — each office opens to the shared building corridor

[edit]PO-1 (Small) — the canonical sample

PO-1 is the methodology demonstration that anchors the entire Key Plans system. The derivation begins with furniture arranged around a central point, then adjusted to satisfy the German Circulation Law and the European Lighting Standard.

Furniture: one desk and chair (Steelcase), one 3-person round table, one filing cabinet, one credenza, one bookshelf, one coat rack.

Dimensions: façade frontage 13'-5"; Habitat depth 19'-8"; Magazine depth 4'-6"; total depth excluding corridor 24'-2". Two mullions span the façade; door swings inward from the corridor side.

Occupancy: 1 workstation per 30 m² (325 SF); assembly occupancy load 6 persons per 5 m² (54 SF per person) — used for IBC egress calculations, not actual daily occupancy.

[edit]PO-2 (Medium)

PO-2 adds a second desk and chair and a second credenza to PO-1. The single 3-person round table, filing cabinet, bookshelf, and coat rack remain at quantity one.

Dimensions: façade frontage 19'-3" (split 10'-0" + 9'-3"); Habitat and Magazine depths unchanged at 19'-8" and 4'-6".

Occupancy: 2 workstations per 43 m²; 22 m² (233 SF) per workstation.

PO-2 is approximately 100 SF larger than PO-1, not double. The shared furniture does not duplicate — this non-modularity is foundational to the Key Plans system. Per-person rentable area is not the design driver; quality of the space is.

[edit]PO-3 (Large)

PO-3 adds two filing cabinets, two bookshelves, and two coat racks relative to PO-2, reflecting a third occupant.

Dimensions: façade frontage 28'-6" (split 10'-0" + 9'-3" + 9'-3"); Habitat and Magazine depths unchanged.

Occupancy: 3 workstations per 64 m²; 21 m² (228 SF) per workstation.

PO-3 represents three professionals sharing a suite that retains the single 3-person round table — typically a partnership or a small practice with two professionals plus an administrator.

[edit]Furniture distribution across a Private Office Tile

Size	Share of tile
Small (PO-1)	80%
Medium (PO-2)	10%
Large (PO-3)	10%

Most Private Office Tiles are predominantly PO-1 cells. Tenants who require PO-2 or PO-3 space lease it explicitly; the building optimises for PO-1 throughput.

[edit]Licensing vs leasing

Private Office tenants are likely to operate under a licensing agreement rather than a traditional lease. The rent is fixed pricing across the three sizes. Building IDs are issued per workstation: one for PO-1, two for PO-2, three for PO-3. Common Area Costs are not broken out separately for Private Office tenants.