Manuscript

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Layout process Draft

01/01/1985

Project Report Draft

A 28-page draft of the six sections of the ‘Manual for Layout of Office Furniture’ with partial contents and some editings.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Content of

Project

New System of Office Furniture for Haworth, Inc. 1985 to 1986

Holland, MI, U.S.A.

Office Furniture, Designed , Furniture prototypes built by C.E.S.

Client:

Haworth Manufacturing, Inc. - Tom Hench

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black, Mark Brinner

Design and construction process:

Theree design principles guided the development of the project: 1) Layout of the personal work space by their users in order to meet their own personal needs; this process is achievable through the use of a computer program developed at C.E.S. which carries a worker through the design process. 2) Use of flexible manufacturing techniques, which allow individualisation of each piece of furniture, without increasing costs; the purpose of this feature is to eliminate the modularity that is part and parcel of current systems. 3) The basis of design is the real human needs and desires, not on the latest trend.

Project stages:

Pattern language for project by C.E.S. Generic rules for office layout process Use of full scale mock-ups Fabrication of full size furniture prototypes by C.E.S. Design Development drawings done after fabrication

The new system of office furniture, intended for mass production, was designed in such a way as to be capable of creating the environment for millions of workers, in an endless variety of specific configurations. The line of furniture provided ...

References

Reports

Pasadena Design Ordinance for Multi-Family Housing: City of Pasadena Zoning Code 01/07/1985

Project, Reference Document

265 page document containing five articles with the current regulations on zoning, land uses, densities, procedures to be followed by all future Pasadena developments: 1) Article I: General Provisions; 2) Article II: Base District Regulations; 3) Article III: Overlay District ...