Design Guide: Military Police Facilities
DG 1110-3-146
December 1979
Space Organization Considerations: Physical Characteristics
Figure 4-12 Alternative Building Configurations
Expansion continues the
desirable pattern of cohesive
space.
Central core or operational
activities.
Intermediate ring of supervisory
or direct support spaces
Peripheral band of administrative
activities
In general, the cohesive plan:
1-Provides a good balance of
Interior (private) and peripheral
(public) space.
2-Minimizes the amount of building
perimeter.
3-Minimizes interior circulation
distances.
4-Provides a suitable framework for
screening the private side of MP
from the public side by spatial
organization.
5-Produces a building form that
easily adapts to the mechanical
and structural needs of universal
space design.
Expansion increases the undesir-
able pattern of linear organization.
In general, the linear plan produces
the opposite of the 5 advantageous
characteristics listed above for the
cohesive plan.
(incompatible with functional
Building Size
needs and limited in
and Configuration
flexibility)
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