"rational layout" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to the design of an area for the purpose of being efficient and organized. For example, "The company implemented a rational layout for their warehouse, which resulted in improved productivity."
There's talk of its "sylvan setting" and its rational layout.
This estate reflects the layout of Le Corbusier's (unbuilt) Ville Radieuse (Radiant City), with its rational layout of giant apartment blocks in wide-open parkland completed in 1959.
Rational layout of vegetation can significantly alleviate the urban heat-island effect and improve outdoor thermal environment.
Our next step is to build out a process and physical plant for producing the new PTC using the documentation from the DFM arranging all the manufacturing steps in a rational layout.
He loves the "rational layout, roomy concourses and variety of services" at Pittsburgh International; considers Denver International "bright and comfy;" and has a soft spot for the airports at Las Vegas and Reno, Nev., saying: "O.K., so they're lined with casinos.
The tabu search algorithm is proposed for supply chain node configuration, analyzing the influence of the level of uncertainty on robust results, and by comparing the performance of supply chain network design through the stochastic programming model and robustness optimize model, on this basis, determining the rational layout of supply chain network under macroeconomic fluctuations.
Rational architectural layout and landscape design are significant measures to achieve building energy efficiency and sustainable building.
These towns have boxy houses, rational road layouts, plentiful but not especially distinguished greenery, and "herringbone" brick paving.
"With most houses, they could be colonial or modern, the roof line is so clear that you can see that underneath there is some kind of rational flow and layout," said Mr. Hayes, author of "The Tailored Interior".
Championing unmanipulated photography, asymmetrical layouts, rational-objective typography, and mathematical grids, the "Swiss Style" of graphic design is perhaps one of the most influential and recognizable design movements of the 20th century.
That explains the persistence of things like the typewriter keyboard layout that make absolutely no rational sense".
