"Set up your desk so that when you're sitting there working, you can see the primary entry to the space without being directly in line with it (usually this means diagonal from the door). Ideally, you have a solid wall behind you for support," says expert Anjie Cho.
Whether they line the perimeter of the house or were inserted through its centre, these hallways from residences in Vietnam to New York show that a corridor contains all the potential to design as the rooms they connect.