Haworth New Office Furniture System: Photographs of model

01/09/1985

Model

Photos of the three out of the six material boards, prepared to indicate the distribution of all visible surfaces by percentage. The first photo depicts Model #3 and includes the following material –natural wood, painted wood, blue silk, transparent glass, cream linoleuml, green glazed ceramic tile, red corduroy, brass, milk glass, black leader, white marble, clay. The second photo depicts Model #4 and includes the following material –blue silk, white matt, natural wood, white vinyl, blue green vinyl, red corduroy, blue and white glazed ceramic tile, milk glass, scarlet vinyl. The third photo depicts Model #6 and includes the following material –white vinyl, green painted wood, natural wood, red corduroy, brass, black leader, milk glass, green glazed ceramic tile, white particle board.

Photographer:

Artemis Anninou/C.E.S., Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Slide

Characteristics:

Color

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 ...

Contents

Photographs

References

Reports

The Personal Workplace: A New System of Office Furniture for the 21st Century 01/01/1986

Project, Project Report

Authors:

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

324-page document that describes the theory and practice of a new kind of workplace. It is organized in two main parts, as follows: Introduction; Part One: Practice – 1. Examples of the new workplace in practice; 2. Available parts and ...

Records

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Office Furniture studies to get distribution of materials 01/01/1985

Project, Design Matters, Design Standards

Authors:

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

7-page proposal of six different possibilities of optimal distribution of visible material in an office space; it includes theoretical and tested proposals.