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Pattern Number: 149Pattern Title: Reception Welcomes You
Category: Buildings
Sub-Category: The most important areas and rooms (in offices, workshops and public buildings)
Up links: 80 Self-governing Workshops and Offices 81 Small Services without Red Tape 91 Traveller's Inn 146 Flexible office Space 130 Entrance Room
Horizontal links:
Down links: 181 The Fire 183 Workspace Enclosure 159 Light on Two Sides of Every Room 150 A Place to Wait 179 Alcoves 180 Window Place 135 Tapestry of Light and Dark 191 The Shape of Indoor Space
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Summaries of content, keywords and links generated by algorithms. Thank you smmry.com:
Summary 1: Place the reception desk so that it is not between the receptionist and the welcoming area, but to one side at an angle - so that she, or he, can get up and walk toward the people who come in, greet them, and then invite them to sit down.
Summary 2: In most institutions the person arriving has to go toward the receptionist; the receptionist remains passive and offers nothing.
Summary 3: To be welcoming the receptionist must initiate the action - come forward and greet the person, offer a chair, food, a seat by the fire, coffee.
Summary 4: The receptionist comes forward from an inner office, invites you to sit down in a com fortable chair at one of these writing desks, and sits down with you while you fill out the hotel register.
Summary 5: The reasons most reception areas fail completely to have this quality, is that the receptionist's desk forms a barrier, so that the desk and equipment together help to create an institutional atmosphere, quite at odds with the feeling of welcome.
Summary 6: Place the fireplace most carefully, to be a focus - THE FIRE give the receptionist a workspace where she can be comfortable in her own work, and still make visitors feel welcome WORKSPACE ENCLOSURE; give the space LIGHT ON TWO SIDES; perhaps put in an alcove or a window seat for people who are waiting - A PLACE TO WAIT, ALCOVES, WINDOW PLACE..
Keywords: receptionist desk welcome place come
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