corridorloze

Corridorloze is an architectural term used to describe floor plans or building concepts that minimize or eliminate traditional long connecting corridors. In corridorless designs, individual rooms or units are accessed directly from shared spaces, such as interior streets, galleries, courtyards, or open-plan hubs, rather than from a central corridor. The approach can be applied to residential, educational, hospital, or mixed-use buildings and is often discussed as part of open, porous, or community-oriented design strategies.

Design characteristics commonly associated with corridorloze layouts include direct access from living or work spaces to a communal circulation space, emphasis on daylight and views, and the creation of legible, human-scaled routes through the building. The layout may rely on a network of interior or semi-outdoor passages, atria, or circulation nodes to connect different areas. Proponents argue that corridorless designs can foster social interaction, reduce wasted circulation area, and enable flexible adaptions of space.

Advantages often cited are increased daylight penetration, enhanced sociability, potential cost savings from shorter corridor lengths, and opportunities for landscape integration or urban interconnection. However, corridorless designs pose challenges in acoustics, privacy, wayfinding, and security. They may require more complex fire safety strategies, enhanced wayfinding systems, and careful planning to maintain privacy and noise control. Building codes and accessibility standards in many regions still favor conventional corridor-based egress in some typologies, which limits the adoption of corridorloze concepts in practice.

In practice, corridorloze ideas tend to appear in experimental housing projects, campus master plans, and retrofit schemes where the goal is to create porous, human-scale environments while balancing safety and regulatory requirements.