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Echoes of the Past, Visions for the Present
04/01/1988
Reference
Authors:
Kurt Andersen
Published in:
Time, pp. 74-75
Publisher:
Time Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Projects
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 ...
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