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The Personal Workplace: A New System of Office Furniture for the 21st Century
01/01/1986324-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 services; Part Two: Theory – Chapter 1) The Need for a New System of Furniture; Chapter 2) The Individual Items of Furniture; Chapter 3) The User Layout Process; Chapter 4) Materials, Finishes and Color; Chapter 5) The New Manufacturing System; Chapter 6) Cost, Distribution and Installation; Appendix 1) The Non-modularity Theorem; Appendix 2) The Computerized Layout Process; and Manual for Layout of Office Furniture.
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New System of Office Furniture for Haworth, Inc.
1985 to
1986
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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Offices and Workshops for Sweet Potatoes Children's Clothing Factory
1985 to
1986
2,300 square feet of interior office space for the management and administrative staff for "Sweet Potatoes" clothing factory to accommodate two partners and eleven employees. All interior furnishings, walls, floors, ceilings, lighting, built-in cabinets, desks, storage, chairs, tables, custom fitted ...
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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: Basic Sketch of Theory and Physical Characteristics of the Office Furniture
01/09/1985
41-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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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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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Early tables of contents of the project report
01/05/1985
Four early versions of tables of contents and descriptions: 1. In three parts and eleven chapters; 2. In seven chapters with outlines; 3. In two parts and seven chapters with outlines; 4. In six chapters with outlines .
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Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Office Design Sketches with Notes
01/01/1985
13 pages with sketches depicting different floor plans of working spaces belonging to the Sweet Potatoes clothing factory, with furniture arrangements user-selected and laid-out according to their needs. Some notes listing furniture chosen by people for their specific working areas, ...