Has the lounge for taking a break always been on the 2nd floor from the beginning?
After looking around each floor of the store, some people wonder why the seating area for resting is on an upper floor. Depending on whether it was designed that way from the start or changed later, the way one understands the space changes.
No, the lounge was initially on the 1st floor, but it was moved to the 2nd floor because employee utilization was low and it could cause confusion in customer circulation paths.
Initially, it was on the 1st floor. Now, it is on the 2nd floor[1].
There were 2 reasons why the same lounge changed floors. Not many employees actually used it, and it was considered that it could cause confusion in the circulation paths of people visiting the store[2]. Generally, the 1st floor of a store is where the entryway and the place where people decide where to go overlap, so if spaces of different natures are placed there, they can easily interfere with each other. LOW CLASSIC completed this building starting from the office space and filled out the retail floor by floor, and even after opening, it continued to refine circulation paths after seeing the reactions of people actually using it[3]. Moving the lounge was one of those refinements.
The name of this space is Mirae Building, and it is located at 43 Dongho-ro 15-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul. The area is 1,324.72㎡, and doors open at 12 in the afternoon and close at 8 in the evening[4].
hmmm, because the 1st floor is the place where people who have entered determine their direction first, a resting area placed there might have been perceived as a place to pass through rather than a place to rest.
Whether store visitors can also use the lounge moved to the 2nd floor has not been confirmed yet.