Boss Design: furnishing shared space with thoughtfully-conceived focus pods that don’t fight the architecture | News | Architonic
Our living and working habits have changed radically in the past 10 years. There is increased fluidity in where and when we work, grab our time-outs, read, lunch. Flexible days stretch into nights, and snatches of downtime might be peppered through the daylight hours too. Remote meeting alerts pop up at alarming frequency at all times of day and increasingly there is the expectation that you are to join wherever you are; a bonafide reason to be on the move is seen as no barrier to participation. It is left to the ingenuity of the designers of our interior spaces to accommodate these new habits, to smooth the way, and find the new ergonomics of our mobile lives. Furniture designers are combining architectural thinking to carve out spaces where we can conduct all life on the move – the more private moments as well as social times – and a new category of furniture has become a fixture in offices and public spaces: the booth. The booth exists at various scales and levels o…
Our living and working habits have changed radically in the past 10 years. There is increased fluidity in where and when we work, grab our time-outs, read, lunch. Flexible days stretch into nights, and snatches of downtime might be peppered through the daylight hours too. Remote meeting alerts pop up at alarming frequency at all times of day and increasingly there is the expectation that you are to join wherever you are; a bonafide reason to be on the move is seen as no barrier to participation.
It is left to the ingenuity of the designers of our interior spaces to accommodate these new habits, to smooth the way, and find the new ergonomics of our mobile lives. Furniture designers are combining architectural thinking to carve out spaces where we can conduct all life on the move – the more private moments as well as social times – and a new category of furniture has become a fixture in offices and public spaces: the booth.
The booth exists at various scales and levels o…
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