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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Thick Wall Components Set & Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Thick Walls

01/05/1985

Construction Works, Notes & Sketches

Notes and sketches regarding the initial steps of the development of the thick walls, one of the main elements for the enclosure and definition of office space.

Authors:

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

Content of

Construction Innovation

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Thick Wall Components Set / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Thick Walls 1985

Construction System, Monocoque Construction

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

A unique set of thick wall components, which were premanufactured stable structures, out of which the rooms were made and which had the solidity and flexibility of design that allowed a "custome" atmosphere to be created. The set included ...

References

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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