Felt Sound Absorbers

I found these felt trees to be very inspiring. The shape chosen - trees - is something pleasant for an office. Even though they are not green or like plants, they still bring an element from nature to the office surroundings. The design is also very interesting as they can be joined together to create a blocked barrier, or stand side by side to still be effective as sound absorbers but allow light through.

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The Chair

The chair that would work well with my desk is the Vitra - Worknest by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec.

Thinking about 'the membrane'

I was thinking about an organic was that the 'cell's could be separated from each other, getting inspiration from nature.

Cell 'Membranes'

I started playing around with the idea of cell membranes, to see how they could join with other 'cells' (working stations) and allow communication when desired, but still be able to be closed off when privacy was prefered.

Cells

As I was thinking about all the things this desk needs to be for the worker, it came to my mind that it is like a working cell, with the worker being the nucleur, and the membrane being a dividing wall that separates the cells from each other. The cells together then make an organism, which is the company.

I started thinking of this desk design by drawing inspiration from cells.

The cells are not rectangular in shape, yet they pack together so efficiently.



 

 

 

The Membrane

 

The membrane wall inspired me to think of how there could be a wall in the office dividing the individual 'cells' - sometimes blocking them off completely, but other times alloing exchange of communication

 

Motion Caption Results

After carried out the experiment and viewing the video of the dots. I derived an image that shows all the dots - showing where most activity occurs and the extents of the activity.


From this a drew around the dots for the optimum desk shape.

Arriving at what I believe is the optimum desk shape that fir well around the user, while at the same time can easily be assembled side by side other desks.

Motion Caption

When thinbking about how to redesign the desk to make it most suitable for the user I needed to find a way that would help me work out a desk shape. To find out what movements are most common around the desk and from there to find out what shape of the desk is most beneficial and efficient, we carried out an experiment using technology for motion caption animation.

The equipment used was from the UCLAN Media Factory and I was the subject.

We set up a prop table with a diagram on it of where you would find the computer screen, keyboard, mouse, telephone, cup of coffee and some trays with files.

I carried out a series of actions that an ordinary person would do sitting at a desk. These movements were recorded and video was produced with the captured moving dots.

The series of actions I carried out were the following:

- Typing
- Moving keyboard closer and further away
- Drinking Coffee
- Moving coffee mug from place to place
- Moving in closer to screen to see something better
- Moving mouse
- Reaching for files
- Opening files and looking through them
- Sharpening pencil in bin
- Writing something
- Opening drawers
- Getting up and walking away, around the table