06. Indoor Environment - Corridor Design

Implement best practices in corridor design

Rationale: Designing corridors with enhanced visual and safety features supports interior wayfinding, increasing physical activity and reducing the risk of injury and overexertion as well as risk of chronic cardiovascular diseases related to sedentary lifestyles.

For the most accurate strategy and documentation requirements, please refer to the digital scorecard made available on the Fitwel Platform.

Requirements

Demonstrate compliance with the below:

Corridor Design - (Full Credit):

Demonstrate compliance with all the following requirements:

1. Utilize contrasting floor and wall colors throughout all interior corridors and hallways within the project.
2. Implement a minimum of three of the following active design strategies throughout the length of all corridors:

• hanging framed artwork
• painting murals on the walls
• adding resting areas (eg, lean bar, bench)
• creating a continuous loop with no dead ends
• providing windows with views of nature.

3. Implement a minimum of two of the following safety elements throughout all corridors within residential areas:

• handrails: locate handrails on two sides
• materials: use low-pile carpeting or slip-resistant flooring
• visual cues: use cues (with paint and lighting) to highlight edges, entrances and exits, or obstacles.

4. For facilities with Memory Care Communities, implements one of the following design features to minimize confusion in residential areas:

• camouflage doors that are not accessible to resident spaces.
• highlight doors that are accessible to resident spaces.

Compliance Documentation

Design Pathway

• Requirement 1:
  • Upload design drawings detailing the floor and wall colors that will be used.
• Requirement 2:
  • Upload design drawings detailing the following:
    • all interior corridors and hallways within the project.
    • the active design strategies that will be implemented.
  • Checkbox to select the below active design strategies that will be implemented (three minimum):
    • hanging framed artwork
    • painting murals on the walls
    • adding resting areas (eg, lean bar, bench)
    • creating a continuous loop with no dead ends
    • providing windows with views of nature.
• Requirement 3:
  • Upload design drawings detailing the safety elements that will be implemented within all residential areas.
  • Checkbox to select the below safety elements that will be implemented (two minimum):
    • handrails: locate handrails on two sides
    • materials: use low-pile carpeting or slip-resistant flooring
    • visual cues: use cues (with paint and lighting) to highlight edges, entrances and exits, or obstacles.
• Requirement 4:
  • Upload design drawings detailing the design features that will be implemented to minimize confusion in residential areas.

Built Pathway

• Requirement 1:
  • Upload annotated photographs showing the floor and wall colors.
• Requirement 2:
  • Upload annotated photographs showing the active design strategies that will be implemented.
  • Checkbox to select the below active design strategies that are implemented (three minimum):
    • hanging framed artwork
    • painting murals on the walls
    • adding resting areas (eg, lean bar, bench)
    • creating a continuous loop with no dead ends
    • providing windows with views of nature.
  • Upload an annotated plan detailing all interior corridors and hallways within the project.
• Requirement 3:
  • Upload annotated photographs showing the safety elements that are implemented within all residential areas.
  • Checkbox to select the below safety elements that are implemented (two minimum):
    • handrails: locate handrails on two sides
    • materials: use low-pile carpeting or slip-resistant flooring
    • visual cues: use cues (with paint and lighting) to highlight edges, entrances and exits, or obstacles.
• Requirement 4:
  • Upload annotated photographs showing the design features that are implemented to minimize confusion in residential areas.