Personal workspace assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing workspace arrangements for temporary use in open facilities lack visibility, privacy, and ergonomic design, leading to reduced utilization due to unclear purpose, claustrophobic feelings, and potential for damage from movable components.
Innovation Solution
A modular workspace design featuring a lounge chair surrounded by a partial wall structure with transparent upper sections, providing privacy and visibility while minimizing damage risks through stationary components and optimized layout.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If walled hotelling offices are constructed to provide privacy for traveling employees, then privacy is improved, but visibility and accessibility are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The partition structure implements local quality by having different transparency characteristics at different heights and orientations. The rear and lateral partitions provide opaque privacy shielding, while the front partition uses transparent or translucent material to maintain visibility and inviting appearance from the common area.
Solution Approach 2:
The partition is segmented into multiple sections with different properties: opaque sections for privacy (rear and sides) and transparent/translucent sections for visibility (front). This segmentation allows simultaneous achievement of both privacy and visibility requirements.
2Adaptability or versatility
If movable components are provided in hotelling spaces to support personal activities, then adaptability is improved, but risk of damage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The tablet support arm is provided in a predetermined extended position that invites users to place their tablets. This preliminary positioning eliminates the need for users to move or adjust the support structure, thereby preventing damage from improper handling while maintaining adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of providing a collapsed or retracted tablet support that requires user activation, the design inverts the approach by providing the support in an extended, ready-to-use position. This inversion makes the system more reliable by eliminating movement-related damage risks while preserving adaptability.
3Shape
If hotelling arrangements are positioned in out of the way locations to maintain aesthetic appearance, then aesthetic appeal is improved, but utilization is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The partition structure uses local quality by applying transparent/translucent material specifically at the front-facing portion that is visible from the common area, maintaining aesthetic appeal and visibility. The rear and lateral portions use opaque materials for privacy where visibility is not required.
Solution Approach 2:
The partition employs transparency/translucency changes to achieve both aesthetic appeal and visibility. The front partition's transparent or translucent appearance maintains visual continuity in the common area, while the opaque rear and lateral partitions provide necessary privacy.
4Reliability
If closed door offices are provided for hotelling to ensure privacy, then privacy is improved, but clarity of availability status is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The partition uses transparency/translucency as a visual indicator system. The transparent or translucent front partition allows visual detection of the space's availability status and contents, eliminating the ambiguity of closed doors while maintaining privacy through opaque rear and lateral partitions.
Data Source
AI summary
A lounge assembly comprising a lower wall structure including at least first and second spaced apart side walls and a rear wall that together form an assembly space, each of the side walls and rear wall including an internal surface, a seat assembly supported between the first and second side walls, a first coupler mounted to the internal surface of the first side wall, a support arm having an arm length dimension between proximal and distal ends, the proximal end mounted to the first coupler adjacent the internal surface of the first side wall for rotation about a first vertical axis and a tablet member supported at the distal end of the support arm for rotation about a second vertical axis through a second range of motion with respect to the support arm.