open plan

noun

1. a floor plan without fully enclosed spaces for distinct rooms.

open-plan

adjective

1. having no or few dividing walls between areas

   an open-plan office floor

Other Words From

• open-plan adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of open plan¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

On the OC’s large open plan floor, amid the banks of monitors arranged in clusters for the different mines, I meet Jess Cowie who used be a manual driller but now directs autonomous ones from the central drill pod.

From BBC

Its head office has been located at the Lodge Way Industrial Estate near Duston, Northampton since 1980, which the firm refurbished in 2022 to create an open plan workspace.

From BBC

“If countries truly want the war to end, they will support our plan,” but added it was an “open plan” that would welcome proposals from other countries.

From Seattle Times

"Open plan, well-ventilated, high structures are exactly what you need at a festival," Mr Sibthorpe, Nachtlab's creative director, said at the Green conference - part of the Amsterdam Dance Event.

From BBC

Mr Sekanjako is then said to have walked upstairs to the open plan office and "began demanding money" and claimed he was being racially discriminated against.

From BBC