How much lobby space does a convenience hub need?

Between roughly three and seven metres of wall run, depending on how many compartments the building needs, at about 700mm deep. Plus clear floor in front for someone to open a door and stand there, and the accessibility clearances your building already has to meet.

It is a wall, not a room. That distinction is most of the commercial argument: a dedicated amenity room takes floor area you could be letting, and it takes it for the whole term whether or not residents use it.

What actually drives the number

• Unit count. More households means more simultaneous demand, which means more compartments rather than bigger ones.
• What it carries. A vacuum and a folding table need tall compartments. Detergent and batteries do not. A mix skewed toward durable goods needs more depth and height for the same number of items.
• Whether add-on modules are included. A beverage fridge or a freezer section widens the run.

What it also needs

Power and a network point, which is usually the part that determines exactly where on the wall it goes rather than the dimensions. Level floor. And a location residents pass anyway: a hub tucked into a corridor nobody walks down gets used a fraction as much as the same hub beside the post boxes.

The honest caveat

The figure above is a planning range, not your building. The footprint in a proposal comes from a measured layout of your actual lobby, including where the clearances land and where the power already is.