# Corridor **Domain:** Architecture / Circulation **Doc Type:** Material Interface Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition A **corridor** is linear circulation infrastructure that connects destinations while limiting lateral movement to selected openings. It is both route and filter. ## Governing Variable Corridors govern sequence, adjacency and encounter. Their width, turns, doors, visibility and branching determine flow capacity, orientation, privacy and which spaces become neighbors. ## Material and Computational Manifestation Hospitals, schools, offices and transport facilities use corridors to separate movement from occupied rooms. Network paths and service pipelines are computational analogues only in the limited sense that topology channels movement through constrained connections. ## Relation to Governance Unlike a room, a corridor is primarily transitional. It makes [[wiki/Circulation|circulation]] durable and can encode institutional hierarchy through separate public, staff, service or secure routes. [[wiki/Architecture as Policy|Architecture as Policy]] studies how this apparently ordinary geometry distributes access and visibility. ## Constitutional Question and Failure Modes The same corridor that supports efficient movement can become a chokepoint, surveillance channel or inaccessible route. Life safety requires that circulation remain compatible with egress under failure, not only with ordinary operational convenience. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Door|Door]] · [[wiki/Lobby|Lobby]] · [[wiki/Circulation|Circulation]] · [[wiki/Wayfinding|Wayfinding]] · [[wiki/Building Code|Building Code]]