Haworth New Office Furniture System: Basic Sketch of Theory and Physical Characteristics of the Office Furniture
01/09/198541-page early report addressing the following six topics: 1) Fifty Key Elements; 2) Customer Variables and Builder Variables; 3) Price of Variables; 4) Manufacturing of Elements; 5) Speed of Production; 6) Franchised Local Production Shops; 7) Cuttable Modifiable Materials.
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The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process
In architecture, as in other things, the "right" sequence is of vital importance. It is a generative sequence of progressive differentiations, which allow space to unfold in the right order. Each differentiation acts on the product of the previous ...
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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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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Pattern Language for a New Generation of Office Furniture
01/05/1985
34-page in-house sketch of a Pattern Language with 64 patterns structured in two groups: Group One “The Character and Layout of Offices” and Group Two “Physical Shape and Substance of the Furniture”. It includes two copies, the second one with ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Manual for Layout of Office Furniture
01/01/1985
34-page manual addressing the workers and managers in an office, with instructions that allow them to create a new, and better environment for themselves. The document contains nine layout steps describing the process to be followed. In addition a 60-page earlier ...
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The Personal Workplace: A New System of Office Furniture for the 21st Century
01/01/1986
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 ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Outline of Office Furniture Manufacturing - Type I - Small Franchising Shops
01/01/1985
6-page organizational plan of a small shop in terms of personel needed for the specific tasks required by the production of custom designed pieces of furniture. One page estimates the amount of budget per six weeks for each shop and ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Business Proposals for New Furniture System
01/01/1985
6-page document introducing the idea of a series of different versions of the new furniture system, examined from the point of view of money and business. System 1 is identified as the most decentralized and also the simplest, from which ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Outline of Computer Program for Furniture Layout
01/09/1985
4-page outline presenting twelve steps of a computer program developed for the office layout process.
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