Connected from day one.
Business-class internet and access are handled, so your team can arrive and get to work.
WESTCOAST / A COMPLETE PLACE TO WORK
A whole workplace.
One HomeBase.
Your team needs room to work. It also needs somewhere to meet, take a call, welcome a client and stop for coffee. HomeBase brings it all together.
01 THE SPACE
What would you need
to build around it?
A standalone office brings all the supporting rooms inside your own operation. Here is one complete program for the everyday functions behind your HomeBase.
CHOOSE YOUR HOMEBASE
3,733sq ft
STANDALONE OFFICE COMPARISON
A complete office program for HomeBase 1.
Room for the whole working day.
| Support space | Qty | Each | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boardroom 8 seats | 1 | 290 | 290 |
| Kitchen + breakroom 10 seats | 1 | 325 | 325 |
| Single-user washroom | 2 | 100 | 200 |
| Lounge + arrival | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| Focus / call room | 2 | 60 | 120 |
| Small meeting room | 1 | 120 | 120 |
| Print, mail + supplies | 1 | 120 | 120 |
| General storage | 1 | 100 | 100 |
Areas in square feet. The lounge includes 150 sq ft for arrival and 200 sq ft for seating. The two focus rooms add support capacity alongside the selected HomeBase.
Then connect it all.
- All programmed rooms Your HomeBase + the support rooms
- 2,175
- Connecting circulation 33% of usable office area
- 1,071
- Usable office area
- 3,246
- Building allowance 15% added to usable area
- 487
- Standalone office program
- 3,733 sq ft
2,175 ÷ 0.67 × 1.15 = 3,733 sq ft
Room areas include movement within each room. Connecting circulation links those rooms. The separate building allowance covers the common building allocation in this scenario; the dedicated washrooms above are counted once.
A complete program you can build on. The calculator starts with this mix and lets you add capacity. These totals describe the selected standalone office scenario, rather than exclusive use of shared HomeBase amenities. Different office briefs will use different room mixes.
See the room-size sources02 THE EVERYDAY
The office keeps running.
You keep working.
The rooms are one part of the comparison. Internet, coffee, cleaning and the people who keep the workplace running bring a separate kind of value.
A fresh start, every day.
Daily cleaning, local coffee and office supplies are part of the workplace.
Someone has it covered.
A managed headquarters brings the day-to-day workplace responsibilities together, with a team you can talk to.
These are services, separate from the square-foot calculation. See what Work Nicer membership includes ↗
03 THE PEOPLE
Your team.
And a few more
good people.
A kitchen conversation. A useful introduction. A familiar face at the next coffee morning.
HomeBase gives your team its own place within a larger working community. Shared spaces make room for the conversations that happen between meetings.
Meet WestcoastTHE THINKING BEHIND THE NUMBERS
A clear basis.
An open calculation.
Published workplace planning references inform the room sizes. The room mix, seating choices and building allowance define this HomeBase comparison.
Meeting, eating & arriving
The boardroom uses 50 sq ft plus 30 per seat: 290 sq ft for eight seats, or 350 for ten. The kitchen uses 75 plus 25 per seat. Arrival and lounge draw on the same administrative-space guide.
UC San Diego / Administrative Space Use Guidelines ↗Focus & everyday support
Penn's 2025 guide gives 40-60 sq ft for focus rooms, 100-120 for small meeting and resource rooms, and 100 for general storage. Print, mail and supplies share one resource area in our program.
University of Pennsylvania / Administrative Space Guidelines ↗Space between the rooms
A 33% share for connecting circulation means dividing room area by 0.67. Its multiplier of about 1.49 sits within GSA/Gensler's illustrated 1.4-1.6 planning range. The separate 15% building allowance is our scenario choice.
GSA / Gensler / Circulation: Defining and Planning ↗Two dedicated washrooms
We allow two rooms at 100 sq ft each. A Toronto community-space program provides a reference example at this size. The quantity is part of this scenario; a building-specific office plan determines its own requirements.
City of Toronto / 169 The Donway West space program ↗