Toshihiko Hazama, a Japanese designer from Myfab, has designed a workspace which folds into a simple cabinet made of aluminum. The design, which might not be the most elegant or ergonomic workspace you out there, is highly innovative and space saving. Thus the fact that it folds into the size of a standard cupboard is a real selling point.
Making the most out of the least available space, the portable office also includes a chair (L 44.4 x W 44.4 x H 42cm), shelves and storage to hoard office supplies. The cabinet measures at 52cm in length, 100 in width and 151 in height and comes in black or silver. The price for this all-in-one box office is circa €1,350.
The works of the designer Daniel Rybakken were exhibited in Salone Satellite 2010 Milan. The designer explores the stimulating effects of daylight through the use of artificial lighting.
The Daylight Entrance by Rybakken is all about the illusion of daylight, It’s a light installation in the entrance and staircase of an office building. Both don’t have any natural light, but these panels give you the positive sensation of sunlight. The back of the panels were hollowed by CNC-milling and then backlit with a lot of LED’s.
David Sieren, who is a graphic designer and member of the Post Family, has recently taken a novel approach to desk design. This common work and household furnishing is often indispensable to our daily lives, being used for a variety of purposes and tasks. Yet despite this varied use and importance the humble desk has remained essentially unchanged and fairly standard. David Sieren’s designs call for a multi-tiered sliding desk, this is in order to allow the user to have various different projects on the go without having to clear the desk before switching focus. The user merely has to slide one work surface into the wall, and extend another one out in order to change what he or she is doing.
Equally the desk also has the ability to recede fully into the wall if this is needed. Such features make the desk design appealing to small cramped rooms where the desk can often take up the bulk of the space available.
Nevertheless, while the design element is undoubtedly elegant and useful, one may question its efficiency. This is because in order for it to function as designed, it requires enough space in the wall behind it to allow the individual slabs to recede into the wall and disappear.
The OfficePOD is 2.1m x 2.1m space to create a self contained office that exceeds all standard office accommodation regulations & requirements. Its modular design enables speedy construction, even in gardens with the most difficult access. The POD has been designed to provide appropriate security when empty or occupied. Power is provided via a discrete and protected connection to the house or garage; IT and phone connectivity is generally wireless but can be similarly cabled. The POD is provided with a secure locking system of the highest quality.
“The OfficePOD cares for the environment also, thanks to its low energy consumption level, high levels of insulation and innovative cooling system. Recycled and recyclable products have been used wherever possible. The OfficePOD is being claimed to deliver savings of at least £9,000 per employee per year and reduce CO2 emissions per employee by between 46 percent and 67 percent.In nutshell, the OfficePOD is an office away from office designed to change the way people work. ”
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The Clipper CS-1 is a shedlike capsule office designed for use inside a traditional office by Douglas Ball and Jeff Sokalski. The Clipper CS-1 simply sits inside an office to give each worker their own sanctuary. It is designed as part of a Herman Miller study into improving office spaces and around 100 Clippers were built, you can see one of Clipper in the permanent collection at The Museum of Design in London.
Clive Wilkinson Architects also designed Macquarie Group’s Australian offices in Shelley Street, Sydney, creating a large-scale space with transparent workstations, light-filled plazas and carbon neutral technologies.
Clive Wilkinson Architects designed Pallota TeamWorks headquarters in Los Angeles. The designers were working on a restrictive budget to create the offices within a warehouse, making innovative use of the space by creating seven tented-villages and executive offices housed in shipping containers.
The office of the Syzygy advertising agency in Hamburg offers a sleek work environment built to foster close employee cooperation by reinforcing a feeling of everyone being in the same boat. The office was created by Christoph Roselius and Julian Hillenkamp of Hamburg’s eins:eins architecten, and features smoothly curved white bullpens that are fully configurable.
