Robert J Morton
Robert J Morton |
A home will inevitably be visited by officials, salesmen and con men. It is therefore necessary to have a place for conversation that is secure and separate from the private parts of the home.
This is the purpose of the interview room. It is essentially the same as the dining room. It is round, with an external diameter of 4000 mm and an internal diameter 3600 mm. It is dominated by the same central round table 1480 mm diameter. The table is likewise surrounded by 8 chairs. Each chair is shown in the diagram as a circle 480 mm diameter, although the chairs are not necessarily round.
For security, the perimeter of the room accommodates only one access door of thick toughened glass connecting it directly with the entrance hall. Daylight for the interview room comes from a large round collimated skylight. The aperture of the skylight is made continuously variable by a 12-vein camera door. Artificial light is provided by twelve 10-watt quartz halogen down-lights surrounding the outer rim of the skylight.
Accommodation for official documentation is provided with secure wall recesses. A 1000 mm wide personal computer screen is mounted on the wall for communal viewing by people sitting around the table. A keyboard rests on the table. The personal computer driving this screen and keyboard is mounted in the secure 'dead' space behind the wall. Access from the interview room to the home's local area network is severely restricted to keep private data from being viewed by people in the interview room.