An academic project during the 3rd year of my studies at the Division of Industrial Design (Singapore).
How can we design to foster greater collaboration in an office?
'The Office' is a systematic study and reinterpretation of archetypal office elements that affords both focus and collaboration for the modern office. My team & I analysed troves of existing office furnishings and surveyed the users' perception of office archetypes. We dissected them into their bare components to extract the essential elements that attributed to each archetype, and recomposed them into contemporary formats that fosters a collaborative spirit amongst workers. The aim of the study was ultimately to explore the potential of new archetypes, or rather updating them to fit the requirements of a modern office, where walls and partitions have been tore down to encourage collaboration.
Design team - Seth Chiam & Poh Hui Qing