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Figure 9.5: The quarantine rule made architectural: a sealed workroom whose exploratory mess cannot cross the wall, joined to the calm main office by exactly two deliberately narrow slots—a brief going in, a distilled memo coming out

A main window and an isolated worker window are separated by a wall with two narrow slots: a brief goes in through one, a distilled memo comes out through the other, and the worker's exploratory mess stays behind the wall.
Figure 9.5 The quarantine rule made architectural: a sealed workroom whose exploratory mess cannot cross the wall, joined to the calm main office by exactly two deliberately narrow slots—a brief going in, a distilled memo coming out.