Design studio on Office Building Design

Spring 1989

Students were asked to examine contemporary office buildings, specify their problems and propose a design process, which would generate a new archetype for office buildings. Emphasis to be given to the criteria and patterns which make the office spaces personal and livable in all levels of scale. Students provided papers and drawings of office buildings in all scales, from overall volumetric configuration to detailed configuration of spaces.

Contents

Drawings 1 Items

Arch. 201 The Office Building: Office Layout Process - Student Drawings 01/03/1989

Sketches, Floor Plan

Seven sets of sketches depicting an office layout as imagined by each student, following the steps of the “The Personal Workplace: A System of Office Furniture Designed for Comfort – Vol. 10, Office Building” describing the layout process.

Photographs 1 Items

Office Building Design: Photographs of student drawings 01/03/1989

Design Studio Course, Drawing

Photographs depicting four student drawings of an office building in Manchester, England. They include floor plans with an axonometric view, longitudinal section, elevations and perspective views.

Course Material 13 Items

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References

Projects 1 Items

The Personal Workplace - New System of Office Furniture 1988 to 1990

Zeeland, MI, U.S.A.

Office Furniture, Designed , Two personal offices with furniture prototypes built by C.E.S.

Herman Miller, the second largest manufacturer of office furniture in the United States, commissioned C.E.S. to develop the "personal workplace", a new system of furniture, which aimed at changing the nature of the American workplace completely. The emphasis was on ...