Our studio tried proposing 'adaptable partitions' for a transit hub concept last term, and our tutor rightfully called it a glorified hallway. The moment we traded the tracks for a massive, heavy timber bench, the waiting space finally had a spine.

Spot on. Give me three solid walls and a deep window sill over a maze of sliding track partitions any day.

Spot on. Tenants will fight a drywalled "multipurpose" void every single time, but give them a deep window bench in local larch and they’ll happily invent five different ways to live around it.