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Workplace
GROWING CITIES
The city is growing, technology is moving forward, and people are constantly changing. The way we work is shifting and slowly, the places we work are adapting to match this. As we gain knowledge on the methodology behind working habits and what influences productivity we can see how the future of work can be improved dramatically. Changes in our working environment can have a profound impact on the level of efficiency and output of workers, along with their health and wellbeing.
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GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Global urbanisation coupled with an increased technological mobility raises the question of the need for traditional office spaces. With the rapidly changing world and a growing knowledge of the way people work, our contemporary workplace management may not be ideal for workers in the context of changing generational trends. An exploration of these issues provides a starting point for future design solutions to the traditional office and the spaces around it.
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Currently there is a global trend to live amongst the city as it is the cultural, economic and social centre. As a result, cities are becoming larger, denser and more important. The demand for more efficient use of space is now a priority. The pressure on attaining privacy will redefine the understanding of private space. This increase in both density and value of space within cities will result in a reduction on the current standard of 10 square metres per person, requiring a rethink of the way commercial spaces are designed.
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CASE STUDY: MELBOURNE
Up to 16% of Melbournes CBD is devoted to car use.2 Melbournes CBD is an example of how city roads occupy a significant portion of the CBDs land area. Imagine if cities were more people centric than car centric. This decrease in road space would open up the city for an expansion in more liveable and usable spaces.
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GENERATIONAL CHANGE
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NATURAL VIEW
The effect of beautythe aesthetic element of a work environmentmay be the most unquantifiable contributor to psychological comfort in the workplace. 7 A natural view has been proven to enhance performance within the workplace. This need has become increasingly acknowledged, for example, Germanys Workplace Ordinance demands that each worker have direct visual contact with the outside world.
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TERRITORIALITY
Territoriality refers to the need to define and have control over ones territory. A lack of involuntary interruptions, the ability to personalise and a private space all contribute to ones sense of territoriality.
LACK OF INTERRUPTIONS
Visual, auditory and physical interruptions are the real enemy of productivity.5 Like sleep, work is phase-based and any interruption may disrupt an entire phase. Current workplaces are filled with involuntary interruptions.
PERSONALISATION
This is a method used to mark ones territory and is an expression of status and personality. This assists in managing stress, expressing emotions and ensures a sense of control in the workplace. Personalisation is linked to commitment and investment.
PRIVATE SPACE
An individual must feel that they have control over their private space to feel mentally comfortable within their environment.
CONFIDENCE
Studies show that employees with higher confidence earn higher wages and were also promoted at a quicker rate. 6
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GENERATIONAL CHANGE
There are elements of human nature that are unchanging amidst our ever-changing surrounds. These needs are more important considerations for physical and mental comfort in order to maximise workplace efficiency.
DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIPS
Looking at the last four generations, trends show a shift in attitudes: FROM Authority Following Formal Distinctive/Separate Areas of Life Live to Work Attitude NBRS+PARTNERS RESEARCH TOWARDS Moral Thinking Casual Greater Overlap Work to Live Attitude
Social researcher, Mark McCrindle, in his book The ABC of XYZ: Understanding the Global Generations, marks these changes within the workplace and describes how, whilst the key management system for Baby Boomers was supervision, it has moved towards a system of empowerment.4 This has caused a shift from an employer-focused office toward an employeefocused work space. This change is instrumental in looking forward to the way workplaces will be designed in the future.
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Generational changes have hastened the breakdown of the traditional hierarchy of relationships. The new workplace is a fluid network of relationships between all members in the office.
The key management system for Baby Boomers was supervision, it has moved towards a system of empowerment.
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GENERATIONAL CHANGE
UNTETHERING
The car was seen as a vehicle of freedom and now the smartphone is...
Graham John, City of Sydney 2012
An increased desire to be connected at all times has been represented by the increased density of cities. A sense of connection, not just in the physical sense, but also the virtual sense has become a high priority. NBRS+PARTNERS RESEARCH The need to be connected to others and have information at our fingertips at any point in time, regardless of location and proximity, is becoming progressively essential. As a result, the technological advancements within the last decade have focused on devices which are able to provide this information and connectedness as a deliverable. The mobility of these devices is fundamental in their design to guarantee convenient usage. The production and continual development of these devices have ensured that workers are able to remain connected to people & information and in many cases, perform their work activities away from the traditional office. As the bulky personal computer is no longer needed for a workable environment, workers have been untethered to the traditional office, creating opportunities to complete work tasks essentially anywhere.
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Technology has reached a point where it has the ability to mobilise humanity. With advancements in communication, the importance of physical proximity is decreasing. In many cases, doing work away from colleagues in a location of the users choosing is actually more conducive for private work. Technology has made this increasingly possible.
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ACTIVITY OVERLAPS
In the past, the time we spent in the three main areas of our lives - work, recreational and home - have remained distinctly separate. For the vast majority, it was considered ideal to divide our 16 hour day equally into these three areas. However due to the mobility of technology in our time-hungry culture, the time we spend in these three areas merges and blurs. Much of the average workers workday is spent commuting between home and the office due to the greater separation between the two, caused by urban sprawl. By finding areas more convenient than the office for work, commute time can be reduced, which allows more time to be used for productive work and allows a greater flexibility in time management.
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As workers now are able to check their emails whilst waiting in line for their cup of coffee, or while travelling on public transport, our work hours are no longer limited to the confines of the office. This opens up many possibilities for the future of work.
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GENERATIONAL CHANGE
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Communal changes are taking place worldwide. A global trend of urbanisation is creating cities of higher density than ever before. The people within these cities are also now exposed to technologies that now allow a mobile lifestyle. The coupling of urbanisation and technological advancements is changing the world we live in and the way that urban areas need to function.
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PERSONAL
Personal changes to an individuals routine and attitude to work need to occur to promote higher levels of efficiency. A greater understanding of the needs people have in order to work: not only physical but also psychological, can enhance levels of efficiency in our time-hungry culture. The way we design a working environment and manipulate individuals routines can have large impacts upon the way people work and their level of efficiency in the workplace. The way the vast majority of the working population works - at an individual workstation, daily - seems to rarely be the most effective. A standardised workstation lacks the attention and variation that individuals of a wide spectrum of occupations require to perform their work activities to their maximum potential. Just as work tasks vary from worker to worker, so do their spatial needs. As each worker is unique, their workspaces should be varied on a needs basis. This workstation also does not accommodate for the large percentage of daily work activities that involve collaboration.
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Looking forward we need to find a system of work that responds to both communal and personal changes. Recently, a new way of thinking has been manifested in many workplaces which provides an idea of current trends and the possible workplaces of the future. The new way of thinking amongst many workplaces stems from the realisation that one workstation for all daily work activities may not be practical as the station may be unsuited to the task. As a result, we are now moving towards workplaces which are taskdriven in their design. This is called Activity Based Work.
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Collaboration Involuntary distractions Urban density increasing Flexibility Temporary work
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WORKPLACE EVOLUTION
By offering choice, adaptability & mobility ABW appeals to a majority of the working population...
Activity Based Working (ABW), is an ideology that has received much publicity and attention in the last few years. ABW embraces changing habits and attitudes within the workplace and is definitely a step in the right direction of the look of future office spaces. NBRS+PARTNERS RESEARCH It offers an unhinging from the traditional workstation with no permanent individual workspace. The emphasis is on collaboration. Veldhoen and Co, the founder of the ABW philosophy, describes this as a behavioural, physical and virtual change and claims that ABW can save approximately 25% of office space. By offering choice, adaptability and mobility, ABW appeals to a majority of the working population. A change in management style and performance measurement is required for the switch from traditional offices to ABW. This system may not be suitable for all commercial sectors. From most accounts however, those companies that have seen and responded to this shift support its widespread adoption as a positive change in workplace practice.10
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The adoption of ABW in workspaces demonstrates a change in attitude where choice is increased and collaboration is encouraged. Smartphones and other mobile devices have also led workers to be untied from their personal computer and permanent work desk, giving users greater choice of their work space. Additionally, the permanent work desk becomes more and more infeasible with the increased density in cities. With these current trends, an assumption can be made that office spaces in 2050 will be more collaborative spaces. Where will private work take place in the future? How can we change the urban planning of our cities to maximise efficiency? Whats our next big step?
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A SOCIAL MATRIX
A city plan consisting of 20 minute nodes reduces the environmental/health impacts... and increases access to facilities.
Cities promote a diversity of social, cultural, and economic exchanges. The design of streets determines both the diversity and efficiency with which these exchanges can be transacted.
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Before the invention of the car, cities were organically developed with series of smaller communities based on what could be accessed locally. This produced self-sufficient communities which had a span of an approximate twenty minute walk. With the recent reduction in individual vehicular use amongst cities and a greater reliance on public transport, the pedestrian use of the city becomes the main form of commute. The CBD has the potential to become localised again and return to spaces of accessibility optimised for the pedestrian. A city plan consisting of 20-minute nodes reduces the environmental/health impacts of vehicular use by promoting foot travel and the ease of public transport as a means of travel. This will encourage the creation and usage of more public/shared space. It also increases the access to facilities for the entire population, evenly distributing the population amongst the city.12
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SPONTANEOUS ACCESS
The majority of journeys are within a short walk...
As the population within cities continues to increase, it is important that our cities are working more efficiently. Commuting can be minimalised through the development of self-sufficient towns, where the majority of journeys are within a short walk. This shift would lessen the necessity for vehicular travel in daily life and reposition pedestrian and people-powered modes of transport (such as cycling) as the core methods of movement. While each node will be designed to be, for the most part self sufficient, inter-nodal travel will still be required. To enable maximum efficiency of time, resources and space, public transport will be consolidated into one central mode. If, for example, a city relied entirely on a train/metro system, all infrastructural transport resources could be concentrated to produce an excellent system. This central link between nodes further reduces the need for vehicular transport and further encourages a pedestrian-based city.
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We humans are pedestrians, walking animals. Just as fish need to swim, birds to fly, zebras to run, we need to walk. Humane cities need to be made for walking. We also like to see people, to be with people. It has been found that people prefer park benches where more people walk by.
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ACTIVITY ZONES
Form based zoning encourages grouping activities together...
There are two types of zoning in urban development: Separate Use Zoning and Form Based Zoning.
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Due to the adoption of individual vehicular use amongst cities, Separate Use Zoning was established as a way of simplifying facilities with large roads connecting the different areas. This creates a reliance on vehicular use which is detrimental to the successful growth of urban environments. A move back to the twenty minute towns supports the shift to Form Based Zoning in cities.
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NEIGHBOURHOOD NODES
The growth of 20 minute nodes involves the development of self-sufficient facilities and infrastructure within this proximity. As these places develop, the independence of each node will organically strengthen. This idea of neighbourhood relationships is something that has been lost as cities have continued to grow and sprawl. When these relationships are present, they result in a stronger urban fabric.
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GREENSPACE
Expanded communal spaces have the potential to become a workplace alternative.
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The large amount of road and car related infrastructure accounts for a significant percentage of our city. The car culture that has developed over the last 50 years has created an unsustainable pattern of car usage within cities. Vehicular spaces often surround cultural centres, assuming prime position and valuable city space. By reclaiming the land used for vehicular access and returning it to pedestrian use, the city can be restored to a cultural, social and economic centre that instils its users with a sense of pride and ownership.
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The move away from vehicular access amongst cities allows for communal spaces within dense, urban centres. With the mobility of technology, these spaces have the potential to become informal workspaces. These public spaces could become an alternative to the office; a workplace where individuals can work in the freedom of the public space.
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ACTIVATED STREETSCAPES
The street can be the centre of cultural and commercial interaction.
There are several universal fundamental aspects that outline an individuals interaction with the street environment. Understanding this relationship means that we can alter the make up of the street to better the city. By changing the street, the way someone interacts and views the city they inhabit is drastically altered. Around the world cities such as Paris, Lisbon and Vienna, posses streets that successfully capture the urban culture of their city. The key to these streets is that they were designed for people, not cars. Changing the streets to accommodate pedestrians creates an environment that is easily navigable and enjoyable.
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The street has the potential to be the centre of urban life; to be taken from a mere passage of circulation to a place of social, cultural and commercial interaction that defines its users experience of the urban fabric.
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These incidental spaces create new possibilities for the workplace. Working spaces on-the-go maximise the possible efficiency and comfort of each worker by being adaptable spaces, duplicated in a variety of locations. These spaces are designed to be predominantly used for private work, but can be adapted for collaborative working. These workstations and booths provide casual meeting spaces and private spaces both indoor and outdoor. These spaces should be made adaptable in order to maximise efficiency and physical and mental comfort through aspects such as: + colour + lighting + furniture + texture Private + acoustics + privacy/territoriality + temperature Semi Private
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In the future we propose that the working environment will be largely based outside of the office in two styles of spaces. The Central Hub: a shared working environment, and Breakout Spaces: individual workplaces spread throughout the public realm. One of the major failings of the traditional office is its assumption that a private, stationary workstation is suitable for the completion of all work tasks. Providing environments that allow a high level of comfort and control, combined with adaptable furniture, allow workers to transition seamlessly between levels of privacy, formality and complete a variety of tasks. Together, the Central Hub and Breakout Spaces will replace the daily role of the office for a large portion of the working population by catering for a fuller spectrum of working modes in a more convenient and comfortable location.
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REVOLUTIONARY CITY
The twenty minute town provides the opportunity for a more efficient workspace
Form based zoning is central to the future success of urban environments. This reassembly of the city will help facilitate the pragmatic functionality of the twenty minute town and allow the workplace to develop into a more efficient and practical version of what it is today. This reassembly also encourages a high level of adaptability, modularity and density, all of which are embraced by projected future urban trends. Another positive by-product of interspersing of zones is a city that is alive with activity outside of traditional working hours.
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SPACES IN-BETWEEN
The game Tetris invites the player to, using numerous basic building blocks, play with the negative space and positive construction. The aim of the game is to tessellate the blocks in the most efficient way - to delve into any unused space and maximise the use of these spaces. In reality, negative space is not considered as wasteful as in the game. However, this game opens our minds into the possibilities of maximising each space. This does not equate to the removal of any negative space, but merely greater control over negative and positive construction.
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On a small scale, this idea can be used in the design of individual work spaces, by removing unused space and allowing another user to occupy this space. This idea can then be repeated at larger scales to accommodate for the growing population in urban cities.
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This extreme version of Form Based Zoning allows for the densification of cities, greater levels of adaptability and closer proximities of homes, offices and recreational areas. This allows for a city composed of multiple selfsustainable 20 minute nodes, through a greater manipulation of positive and negative construction.
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The Tetris idea can be used as add-ons to existing buildings, offering a more temporary space than the existing building provides. As this idea spreads, entire building sites may be occupied by these blocks, allowing complete manipulation of positive and negative construction. The churn of the city requires a fast-paced lifestyle from its occupants and this becomes more possible with the control these basic building blocks offer.
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BREAKOUT SPACES
With many people preferring to work outside of a traditional office, Breakout Spaces provide the efficiency and comfort of the Central Hub or office but are located throughout the public realm in spaces such as libraries, cafs and restaurants. These spaces provide a level of informality and greater privacy, in addition to minimising commute time.
A large percentage of the office workers workday will be spent away from their individual desks. Whilst ABW is a step in the right direction, there will no longer be a reason to commute to and from the office daily to work individually. While working at home may be convenient, there are many distractions within the house and many workers want to keep work and home separate. This is where the two new spaces fit in.
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BREAKOUT SPACES
The Breakout Spaces will be sections of the public realm which have been uniquely equipped for effective individual work. As such, these spaces are not limited to those of the workforce, but also target school and university students, leading to an easier transition into the workforce. In the same way, access would be linked to a membership with the Central Hub use. However, those without a membership could also use these spaces on a single use basis as well as an exclusive membership to Breakout Spaces. The student population would not have access to the main Hubs.
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While offices lose a large portion of their individual nature, these spaces will house a variety of collaborative spaces. With one hub in each 20 Minute Town, these hubs will always be commute-friendly and offering a variety of work spaces to suit individual style and needs. Thus, workplace efficiency will be maximised on a day to day level.
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Private Meeting Rooms Individual Working Areas Semi-Private Working Areas Collaborative Zones
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Private Zones
Semi-Private Zones
Communal Zones
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These same design concepts can be manipulated to fit into varying contexts. The above diagrams demonstrate that different organisations of these same spaces can hold true to the original ideas and relationships. This adaptability allows these workplaces to be located throughout the city. Their malleability also allows them to be repeated side by side in a modular configuration, to allow larger workplaces in locations that demand a higher capacity. These spaces are will form an essential part of the workplace of the future, designed to fit with the rapidly changing nature of the urban environment.
COLLABORATION
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A Central Hub with spaces spread over vertical levels. The colours depict the different styles of working zones.
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Many of the spaces are multi-functional, for example furniture that doubles as a chair and a desk. This addresses the human need for territoriality: providing users with a feeling of ownership over their area of use. As a result, users feel more comfortable. By allowing users to have control over their space, their minds are left free of unwanted conditions, and able to focus on their work.
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OUTDOOR ZONES
The informal, relaxed nature of the Central Hub encourages workers of varying occupations to come together for small group collaboration or individual work.
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ACTIVE STREETSCAPE
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Breakout spaces are what take this system forward. They allow the working environment to lose the boundaries of office walls and the envelope of buildings. By activating the public realm into spaces that equip the individual to work efficiently, they are given greater choice and adaptability over their environment. The activity of work is then no longer limited to a time frame or a geographical location, becoming more convenient and available to the individual at all times. These spaces encourage individuals to utilise the rapidly changing technology that will continue to revolutionise the efficiency of work practice into the future.
BREAKOUT SPACES
WHAT
The Breakout Spaces are a variety of designed informal spaces that can be manipulated by the user to maximise productivity.
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These informal spaces can be found within, but not limited to, public spaces such as cafs, malls and bars. They can also be found in outdoor areas such as recreational parks. NBRS+PARTNERS RESEARCH The number of Breakout Spaces within each node in the city can continue to increase as required.
THE SPACES
Breakout spaces provide a smaller scale, more private and informal alternative to the Central Hub.
COMMERCIAL USE
Breakout spaces are attractive to owners of cafs, bars, malls and hotels as they are inviting to the public and encourage users to use their facilities/products.
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BREAKOUT SPACES
In order to accommodate for a wide scope of users, the furniture within Breakout Spaces require great variation. Here is an example of one type of furniture which allows users to customise the space according to their activitys needs: The angled backrest provides a sense of safety and enclosure for individual work. A soft malleable base is used to adjust to the user accordingly. The multi-purpose armrests can be swivelled around to become small desks. Underneath the seat, space for temporary storage can be found and a possible footrest can be lifted.
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The freedom that the presence of Breakout Spaces allows is to work efficiently anywhere. They will provide an equal level of individual space and technological access as an individuals normal working environment.
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INDIVIDUAL SPACES
BREAKOUT SPACES
Breakout spaces allow individuals to work efficiently almost anywhere. These spaces will provide the privacy and technological access that successful individual work requires.
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Users of these spaces are also able to manipulate the space, making each space their own for their temporary work session.
These booths are designed with adaptable height, temperature, enclosure and lighting and can easily transform into a collaborative space for a few users.
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These blocks can tessellate to create new spaces and can be used as a seat or desk. They provide a more informal way of working and allow collaboration or individual work.
These blocks double as a seat or a desk and slide to provide infinite combinations and different sized blocks.
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These chairs/lounges are designed for individual use. Users can manipulate the shape of each one to suit their ergonomics and the activity at hand. These desks have seats that slide out, providing a compact and easily manipulated space. They can be combined or pulled apart for different purposes and allow for infinite arrangements. REWORKING THE WORKPLACE
These individual desks are designed to tessellate to allow collaboration but also designed to be pushed against a wall for more private work.
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These sliding panels attached to a rotatable wall can double as a seat or a desk and can be used individually or collectively. This provides choice for the individual and flexibility.
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These undercover areas are ideal for small groups collaborating informally. These spaces can be indoors or outdoors and users can manipulate height, enclosure, temperature & lighting.
These egg-shaped spaces are designed for individual work, and can be moulded to any shaped egg desired, providing adaptability in levels of enclosure, light, temperature and height.
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These blocks have slidable desks/ chairs and can be placed against walls for more private use, or rolled into the open to encourage collaborative work. These spaces have sliding screens which allow multiple levels of privacy. Inside, temperature, lighting, enclosure and height of the desk/chair can be controlled. REWORKING THE WORKPLACE
Breakout spaces allow individuals to work efficiently almost anywhere. These spaces will provide the privacy and technological access that successful individual work requires. Users of these spaces are also able to manipulate the space, making each space their own for their temporary work session.
These spaces create more intimate spaces for workers who want to retreat into a more private space to work informally and at leisure. Individual lighting, temperature can be manipulated.
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Activity Based Living allows Breakout Spaces and the Central Hub to fit in seamlessly. A transition to activity based spaces encourages form to follow function.
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Off to work
Jack leaves Jane working in the cafe and walks to his office to meet with his team.
BREAKOUT SPACES
Jack finds a breakout space within a bookstore. He likes it as it is informal, quiet and has little interruptions. But soon, Jack realises there are things he forgot to ask a team member, John.
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Morning Routine
After completing their morning routine, Jack and Jane leave their apartment and go to the cafe under their apartment for breakfast.
IN THE OFFICE
Jacks team meet for roughly an hour to discuss their project. When they are done, they break off to do individual work.
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Jack and John walk 5 minutes to the Hub. They finish their discussion and when theyre done, John continues his private work in the hub.
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Lunch
Jack and John have a pub lunch together. When they finish, they have not finished discussing what was needed as they were too busy discussing Johns recent trip to Thailand.
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