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), cerebra ...

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 permiss ...

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 whi ...

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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