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| The Armature conveys brand, holds multimedia, supplies power, light, and frames spaces providing prospect and refuge. It is a structure which expresses process and organizational intent. Armature hold place while all the other elements are free to configure in a wild variety of ways to meet user requirements and sense of place. |
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| In order to have collaboration, the environment has to support it in all of its specific modalities of work. |
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| This table, when the leaves are folded down, is a video conferencing workstation for four - with leaves up, it provides four work areas for an individual’s personal work while still being part of a comunity. |
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These are serious questions yet ones not often seriously asked - and more rarely answered with any depth of thought.
Yet, it is the workplace where most of us spend the majority of our time. Is this time good time spent? Is it truly productive for ourselves and the enterprise?
Instead of building workspaces with the idea of managing costs down, why don’t we build them as an investment in production and the goal in mind to greatly improve creativity and productivity?
Why not design for profit?
Why build fixed environments that have to be ripped out and redone every few years? Why not build adaptability into the landscape? Is giving everyone the same box to work in reflective of their true work-based needs?
In terms of the basic shell, even a commercial building can become a more friendly box using skylights and light tubes and multiple layers of ceiling heights to open the vertical space and define work zones. |
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| workPODs are architectural scale furniture - “rooms within rooms” which roll to new locations as required. They bridge the gap between Armature and human scale. |
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| Clusters of workPODs, form team areas with their own collaborative commons. PODs can easily be unplugged, rolled to another team and connected for an extended work period allowing teams to configure as needed through their process. |
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| Work goes through several discrete steps as it travels from idea to completed product in a specific market of goods or ideas. Each of these steps require different modes of thinking which require different tools and work spaces. |
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