Choosing the allocation size based on the average size of the files expected to be in the file system can minimize the amount of unusable space.

The plan, said Leslie Winter, chairman of the design center board, is to start by renovating the unusable space, which will then be rented out.

"It transforms a formerly unusable space - the basement - into this light-filled, airy space," he said.

"I wanted to make this virtually unusable space an efficient machine to do our business in, but also retain a playful, theatrical quality."

The original old-fashioned kitchen had been exceedingly dark and riddled with small, unusable spaces.

IF one person's meat is another's poison, can one person's unusable space be another's to-die-for setting?

What, no rabbit warrens of unusable space to reconfigure?

The fuselage was left with a good deal of unusable space with only open luggage shelves mounted in the upper fuselage.

Even then it still had a few feet of empty, unusable space between its bumpers and serious automotive organs front and back.

Artists complained about bureaucratic management, unusable public space, inadequate publicity and poor facilities.