Offices and Workshops for Sweet Potatoes Children’s Clothing Factory: Photographs of model

01/07/1985

Model

Three views of an early 1:20 work-model built out of carboard, depicting two work places, and using the scale models for desks, rolling side tables and filling cabinets, built-in furniture, etc., developed for the Haworth project; the aim was to test the quality of the space for individual offices produced by the users, when using these particular pieces and a set of layout rules.

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Project 1 Items

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.

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

Scientific Research 1 Items

Participation of the Users in the Design Process - Testing and Applying Pattern Languages and Layout Rules

Christopher Alexander believed that people have a right to determine and shape their environment. The genuine and wholehearted involvement of the users in the shaping of their buildings contributes positively to good architecture. It gives life, identity and personal qualities ...