A hallway or corridor is an interior space in a building that is used to connect other rooms. Hallways are generally long and narrow. Kemi Lyseo 20180726 04

Hallways must be sufficiently wide to ensure buildings can be evacuated during a fire, and to allow people in

wheelchair A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, used when walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury, problems related to old age, or disability. These can include spinal cord injuries ( paraplegia, hemiplegia, and quadriplegia), cerebr ...

s to navigate them. The minimum width of a hallway is governed by

building code A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for constructed objects such as buildings and non-building structures. Buildings must conform to the code to obtain planning permission ...

s. Minimum widths in residences are in the United States. Hallways are wider in higher-traffic settings, such as schools and hospitals. In 1597

John Thorpe John Thorpe or Thorp (c.1565–1655?; fl.1570–1618) was an English architect. Life Little is known of his life, and his work is dubiously inferred, rather than accurately known, from a folio of drawings in the Sir John Soane's Museum, to whic ...

is the first recorded architect to replace multiple connected rooms with rooms along a corridor each accessed by a separate door.

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