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Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Office Layout Process; a set of sketches and notes from thirteen individuals who participated in a test experiment led by C.E.S., for which C.E.S. provided a step-by-step generating sequence which allowed each person to work out the ideal layout of his/her own office step by step, and then realize it by building it in the movable cardboard model
01/03/1989Sketches with brief comments on the existing work conditions, twenty six pages in total, produced by the thirteen participants in the C.E.S. office experiment, for testing the office layout rules; the participants were Pirko Luckhesie – Architect, Alex Bloom – Software Development, Bo Links – Lawyer, James Maguire – Architect, Stephanie Upham, Andre Sala – Portal Press, Anil Randive – Pacific Bell, Carlos, Neela Kanjaria – Editorial Assistant, Marilee Onliveros – Public Relations at Neighborhood Reinvestment, Steve Phillips – Microage Computing Stores, Dan Yost – Real Estate and Bill Munley – Bank of America.
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The Uniqueness of People's Individual Worlds, Always Respected and Manifested
In the last two centuries "modular" design has produced identical apartments, arranged in typical apartment blocks. The same is true for mass-produced furniture. Uniqueness, which expresses personal needs and whiches, and which springs from the need to adapt and connect ...
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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 ...
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Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Photographs of private office layout by prospective client, using the CES "Layout process for a private office"
4 4) Mr. Links in his current office, at that time
01/03/1989
Example of a private office layout done by Mr. Robert Links, law office manager.
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Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Photographs of private office layout by prospective client, using the CES "Layout process for a private office"
4 4) Ms. Luchhesi
01/03/1989
Example of a private office layout by Ms. Pirko Lucchesi, an architect office manager.
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Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Photographs of private office layout by prospective client, using the CES "Layout process for a private office"
5 5) Mr. Maguire
01/03/1989
Example of a private office layout by Mr. James McGuire, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation office manager.