Agora

INTRODUCTION 4
Task 4
Thulema 5
Team and tutors 6

THE OFFICE
RESEARCH 7
Competitors 8
Open Offices 13
Fieldwork 16
Survey 24
Analysis 26

THE FURNITURE
REQUIREMENTS 29
Functional 29
Aesthetical 29

IDEAS 32
Sketches 32

CONCEPT 34
Kiosk 34
Board+X 36

PRODUCT 38
Mock-Up 38
Drawings 40
Renderings 43
Technical Drawings 48
Prototype 58

REFERENCES 60

ACKNOWLEDGMENT 61

In information and knowledge based societies like ours most of the work is done in offices.
The way how work is done changed rapidly over the last decades due to new technologies and
management methods — not so much the work environment itself. Working processes are more
project and teamwork based, working structures are more flexible and flat, office spaces are
more open and the atmosphere in the office and the well-being of the employee is important as
such - but the furniture stayed quite the same.

The aim of this project was to
find new solutions for teamwork
furniture in open space.
4 Introduction

We worked with and for the Estonian office furniture brand THULEMA. Since 2010 Thulema is
owned by KITMAN, an Estonian developer, manufacturer and marketeer of shop fittings and
public spaces. Their expertise lies in metal processing. We visited THULEMA’s showroom in
Tallinn to get familiar with their products and KITMAN’s factory to see how they produce their
goods.

www.thulema.ee www.kitman.ee

Showroom

Introduction 5

Our team brought together three different nations: India, China and Germany and two
professions: product design and engineering.

The team:

Madhes Chidam Baolian Suo Franziska Porsch
Mechanical Engineer Product Designer Product Designer
India China Germany

Our tutors supported us developping the product and helped us when we did not know how to
continue.

The tutors:
Pent Talvet Maarjus Kirs
Product Designer Engineer
Estonia Estonia

Martin Pärn Henri Lend
Product Designer Engineer
Estonia Estonia

6 Introduction

In order to develop a good
product the first step was to
understand the context:

THE OFFICE

Research 7

First, we searched the internet for competing producers of office furniture to find out how
they interpret the changing needs within the office and looked for examples of how offices are
already adapted to the new needs of today.
The research showed that companies, both producers and consumers, are aware of the change.

Martela is a Finish producer. Their desk MyBox is lockable and movable. That relates to a flexible
office environment. The user can lock it when he is not there and move it away.

www.martela.com

MyBox

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Steelcase is an U.S. American company, who issues regularly a magazine on workplace research.

www.steelcase.com

Research 9

Turnstone is one of Steelcase’s brands. Their Bivi series offers modular products for various
settings and pictures a fresh and creative working atmosphere.

www.myturnstone.com

Bivi

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Vitra is a Swiss business that produces and trades home and office furniture. On their homepage
they introduce their concept „Citizen Office – the productive office“, where they show that
working nowadays requires different spaces and settings for the variety of tasks employees have
to carry out. They suppose that the office environment directly shapes the performance of the
employees.

www.vitra.com

The Citizen Office

Research 11

Knoll is another U.S. American company which produces office furniture. Their Antenna
Workspaces program addresses some of the keywords which have to be balanced in an office of
today.

www.knoll.com

antenna workspaces

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These office examples show that the occupied office space is open and divided by furniture or
furniture-like elements in order to create islands for different kinds of work. The style is either
playful or clean.

Research 13

The Facebook offices in Palo Alto, California, are a good example of how an office can be a
creative space. The designers of this space state the following on their homepage: „At Studio
O+A we believe work environments grow organically from the culture of the client. Our focus is
on identifying and understanding that culture and translating it into spatial terms. We recognize
the economic and sociological forces that are transforming the way people work and live: the
blurring boundaries between home and office, the ever increasing mobility of the workforce and
the fluid movement of information.“ (www.o-plus-a.com)

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Facebook offices

Research 15

Second, we visited three different offices in Tallinn to gain first-hand insight. We focused on
offices that are likely to suit to our brief of teamwork and open space, which we found within
the creative industry and start-ups. Retrospective we also should have taken conservative offices
in consideration to get a bigger picture of how people work.
Since we were introduced to the research methods of anthropology during our course at
Tallinn University, we conducted our visits as fieldwork. Fieldwork is a qualitative method that
distinguishes anthropology from other human and social science. The researcher tries to live in
or at least tries to study as close as possible the foreign culture. The aim is to understand the
culture from the natives point of view. The same idea worked for us as designers, even though
our fieldwork was limited in time and deepness. We visited these three offices to understand
their culture from the users point of view and to make us aware of what we have to take in
consideration in order to create a good product.

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Therefore we prepared a questionaire:

How did you change your office compared to the former one and why (if they moved recently)?
Why do you promote open space offices?
What is the structure of the company? How do the teams form?
What is the structure of an average working day?
How much work is teamwork in a group, how much concentrated work alone?
How do you communicate within the office? How do you wish to communicate?
Which spaces can you define/name (example: kitchen, working, meeting)?
What things do you have on your desk (useful/standing around)?
What things are highly necessary on your desk?
How personal is your desk? Do you have the need to personalize it?
Which things do you take home and which do you always leave at the office?
Do you eat at your desk?
How much space do you need to work?
How much space do you need for storage?
Do you move things around the office a lot (example: computer, paper for meetings)?
Do you need a wall to visualize things for yourself?
Do you work standing sometime? Do you wish to do that?

We did not necessarily read every question from the paper during the visits, they more served as
a mnemonic. Other questions arose spontaneously during the talk and some derived from what
we saw in the office space. Usually we spent one hour in there and only talked to the person we
had the appointment with. The following pages show our findings.

Research 17

Garage48 HUB (www.garage48.org) is a co-working space for start-ups in the field of technology
in Tallinn. The idea was to give the start-ups originating from the events Garage48 is organizing
some space to carry out their business. Start-ups working at the HUB usually consist of two to
four people, but also individuals work there. They use the space on average three months until
they are settled enough to move to their own office. The working modes are divers: individual
work, group work, meetings, workshops and get-togethers. The HUB is accessible 24/7 for
members. That means the characteristics of this office space are a high fluctuation of people,
short-term and temporary work, flexible working hours and a multifunctional work environment.
The upper floor is mainly a working area. Into those three seperated spaces they tried to fit as
many desks as possible. They are not moved around because their actual constellation is the only
possible for so many workstations. The small room on the side functions as phone and skype
booth so that others are not disturbed. Every member can rent his personal desk. But since the
teams and individuals change so often it can happen that the HUB manager asks to move to
another desk. When we visited the HUB at nine o’clock in the morning there was one person
working there. The manager told us that most of the people come to work around lunch time.
Moreover he told us that people who rent their desk do not necessarily work there all the time.
Some prefer to work in the lounge areas on the first floor or basement. That means that the
degree of capacity utilization is suboptimal, even though the manager told us that the HUB has
to be as efficient as possible because it is not profitable. But to save money was the reason for
the furniture they have in the first place. Most of the furniture used in the space is there because
it was for free or cheap. Besides that the manager also mentioned that it was hard for him to
even find furniture in shops or the internet that would be suitable for the needs of a co-working
space.
The area on the first floor is mainly used by people who do not have their own desk or for
meetings and get-togethers. The problem here is, that the furniture is not very adaptable to the
different kinds of settings. The big meeting table for example is hard to be removed when they
need an empty space. The manager also told us that the beanbags are very popular.
Concluding we find that the furniture does not master the given situation in the HUB.

booth
kitchen office

office
office
office office
meeting table
lounge

First floor Upper floor

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Lounge area on the first floor

Meeting table and beanbags Kitchen

View into an office on the upper floor Basement

Research 19

DER TANK (www.tank.ee) is a graphic design and media agency based in Tallinn. Their office
space is designed by an interior designer for their purpose and they share it with other
companies in their field. At the moment 25 people work at TANK full-time, associated in
teams and projects. The space is characterized by natural materials and a calm and creative
atmosphere.
The space consists of different areas: the working area including a small handicraft and
photography niche, the lounge area with library, two seperated meeting rooms and the kitchen.
We were told that the hirarchy is necessarily flat, which is reflected in the open working space:
every part is accessible. Nevertheless they use semipervious space diving elements, which
islolate the project managers from the rest. The disadvantages of TANK’s open working area are:
First they lack private space for concentrated work, second they wish their desks would be easier
moveable and modular so that they can build different group constellations more often and third
they do not have a good storage system, which leads to messy desks. The lounge area and the
library are very popular for team meetings and as alternative working space to personal desks.
It also offers idle time activities: tabletop soccer and fishes in the pond. That gives the space
a homelike character. The meeting rooms are mainly used for meetings with a client and less
for team meetings, because the rooms are very formal. Some people use the kitchen to prepare
meals, others prefer to go out for lunch to escape the office for a while. The kitchen is also used
for events and get-togethers.
TANK’s office is a creative and communicative space that reflects their working culture.
Nevertheless they still have problems for which a different kind of furniture would be a solution.

niche lounge
office
office
soccer
meeting room

pond
library
kitchen
lounge

meeting room

TANK office

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Working area

Lounge area with pond and tabletop soccer Library

Meeting room View to the handicraft and photography niche

Research 21

Tehnopol (www.tehnopol.ee) is a science park situated in Tallinn. We visited their old Startup
Incubator, which is still in use, but we were given a presentation on a totally new building which
is under construction. The Incubator provides office infrastructure for start-up companies in
the field of technology. The old Incubator we saw is a renovated building, which offers either
seperated offices to the start-ups or workplaces in a bigger co-working office. The rooms are
arranged along a small corridor. The furniture is conventional.
The new Incubator will capture one complete level in the new building and will consist of a wide
range of functional areas: seperated offices of different sizes, office boxes in open space, skype
calling boxes, conference and meeting rooms, laboratory, kitchen and lounge.
Interesting findings about the new Incubator were: They will solve the problem of cable
management by having the cables hanging from the ceiling. The size of the offices is so flexible
because they will use wooden walls that are easy to rearrange. By developing the open boxes for
the open space area they try to balance having concentrated work and group work in the same
space.

offices meeting rooms

open boxes

laboratory

kitchen
offices skype boxes

offices offices offices

The new Incubator

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The new Startup Incubator

Co-working office in the old Incubator Cable management from the ceiling

The wooden wall is rearrangeable

Research 23

Third, we collected information about working habits and environments by a multiple-choice
question survey. Baolian compiled it, sent it and got answers from 60 informants. They have
an average working experience of 10 years, 32 persons are female and 28 male and they work
mainly in asian countries in the fields of technology, finance, human resources, marketing, mass
media, medical science, education and the army. The results were:

The majority prefers

—to work in a common size open space seperated with screens
—to work in a homelike atmosphere
—to sit near the window
—to have two desks of the size 160cm on 120cm
—a rectangular desk to an oval or irregular shape
—to have a walk around the office when they feel tired
—not to have pictures of their family on their desk
—to change the arrangement of the office furniture once a year
—to eat in a dining room than at their desk
—to listen to music with headphones than via speakers (if they listen to music)

They also

—spend 10 percent of their working time per day in meetings
—spend up to 70 percent of their working time per day on individual work
—use pen, paper and a water cup most frequently besides their computer and phone
—are disturbed by discussions of other colleagues and people walking up and down

Documents and papers are the things which are usually in a mess and a pen is the thing most
difficult to find on the desk.

The design researcher Uta Brandes (www.be-design.info) analyzed 686 desks on 5 continents for
her survey „My desk is my castle“. On the right side are three examples.

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Design studio in Hongkonk

Design studio in New York

Desk of a german administration secretary

Research 25

After accumulating all this
information we needed to
structure it.
We found that the office context is characterized by three factors: the type of organization, the
end user and the management. The organisation and the end user define what work is done
and how it is done. Management means that there is somebody who decides what furniture is
to be bought. This person usually wants the furniture to either improve the performance of the
employees and make more profit or the furniture to save space and pay less money for the rent.
Though being aware of this economical user value, we wanted to focus on the end user itself,
the employee. Again we found that the user is characterized by five factors: space, person,
activity, objects and process. These factors can define every possible situation the employee
can be in: where he does what as which person with which objects and during what time. For
example: In the morning the project manager briefs his team on the new project in the meeting
room by showing some slides projected on the wall. Or: The secretary is writing an e-mail on her
computer sitting at her desk next to her colleague’s while drinking the coffee she prepared five
minutes ago in the kitchen. Or: The designer and the engineer discuss the technical drawing at
the engineer’s desk after they accidentally met at the printer on the other side of the room.
We tried to generate complete lists of the five factors to finally group them again. This new
layer of three groups helped us to think about the problems that could occur in an office. The
groups are: power supply, storage (meaning the organization of objects and furniture) and
interaction (refering to the interaction between the employees and between the furniture and
the employees).

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MANAGEMENT
ORGANISATION

END USER

SPACE PEOPLE ACTIVITIES OBJECTS PROCESS

—open space for —worker —individual —electronic —activities
working —manager work equipment in time
—defined —clients —group —light —movement,
spaces: —externals work —materials noise,
kitchen, —private —tools distractions
(skype) activities —private
meeting —leisure belongings
room, activities —personalized
lounge, decoration
entrance area
etc.

lamp
walking around
POWER SUPPLY STORAGE INTERACTION

Research 27

The problems we found according to the three groups are:

Power supply

—not enough plug-ins
—hard to reach
—cables messy (ugly, not in order)
—cables too short
—incompatibility of connectors

Storage

—desks are messy
—there is not enough space to work
—things are not in order
—it is difficult to find things
—things are not easy to reach
—there are individual differences in the way of storaging things
—storage is not made for different functions
—personal things are confused and mistaken during group work

Interaction

—furniture is hard to move
—furniture is not adaptable to different working processes
—furniture is not supporting interaction between employees
—furniture does not provide enough temporary privacy
—there is no isolation from noise and distraction
—not possible to store furniture in a space saving way

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Thinking about these problems
lead to the requirements for:

THE FURNITURE
We presented them to THULEMA during the sixth week of the semester.

Functional requirements:

—the furniture should manage the power supply and communications to the benefit of the user
—the furniture should be easy to move (by one person)
—the furnitur e should be rearrangeable and changeable to adapt to different working processes
(modular, multifunctional)
—the furniture should use space effectively
—the furniture should provide the possibility to isolate/seperate people temporarily
—storage should be more functional and logical
—the furniture should help distinguish personal things used in a group

We also decided on the aesthetical requirements:

—appear simple and clear
—communicate its functions easily
—promote communication and interaction by its appearance
—invite the employees to use the furniture actively and whenever needed by a playful
appearance
—have a variety of materials with natural feel
—create a homelike atmosphere

Requirements 29

We collected images to show our idea of the aesthetics visually.

30 Requirements

SIMPLE
CLEAR
PLAYFUL
NATURAL
HOMELIKE

Requirements 31

Those requirements were the basis for our first sketches.

32 Ideas

But soon we realized by the help of our tutors that our requirements stayed on the level of
functions. We did not have a concept yet.

Martin introduced this idea of the design process to us: When someone perceives a product he
instantly sees the aesthetics. Shortly after he realizes the structure and based on the structure
he can understand the functions. When he starts useing it he can discover the usability of the
product and when he uses it regularly the product can start to mean something to him. The
design process goes in revers. The designer should know the meaning of the product before he
thinks about the usability, before he defines the functions and finally designs the structure and
the aesthetics.

Pent showed us a speech of Simon Sinek about „How great leaders inspire action“
(http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html). The bottom
line of the speech is that most of the companies know what products they do and how they do
it. But they are lacking of the reason why they do it. Even though this should be the starting
point of every successful idea.

Both impulses helped us to think about our concept. Still it took several steps until it was fully
developed.
We went back to think about the office as a whole. Our finding was that the office mainly
consists, speaking on a more abstract level, of horizontal surfaces and archives. The surfaces
support the work in progress. The archives store the temporary or long-term results of the work.
What is missing in this sequence is the point before the surfaces and archives, where we get the
tools and the materials we need to start working. That lead to the idea of a central supply point
within the office. We called it KIOSK, because it functions like a kiosk in everyday life. We made
a list of what activities and functions our KIOSK should support and arranged them according to
our preference:

1 meeting and talking
2 information board (formal and informal information)
3 magazine display
4 tools and materials supply (like pencils and paper)
5 coffee machine
6 seating

As you can see we favored the social components this KIOSK can offer. We wanted the KIOSK to
not only supply tools and materials but also information and inspiration by inviting to stay there
for a while and read or talk.

34 Concept

Surface

Archive

Kiosk (metaphor): meeting point in the public selling newspapers, magazines, drinks, food, cigarettes, tickets

Concept 35

We tried to translate this idea into sketches and ended up thinking about a modular system that
would allow the user to build his KIOSK out of different functions tailored to his needs. But that
did not lead to a satisfying result. To simplify things we decided to focus on one function we
find characterizes what the furniture is supposed to do best and then add functions to it. We
decided on the board, because it is a necessary tool during meetings and discussions to share
ideas and also can function as a screen to seperate the meeting space from others. Starting from
the board we did sketches again and found the archetype of our furniture. It already had the
three functions the final product has now: the board to write and stick paper on it, shelves to
store things like pencils, paper, magazines and books and a stool to sit down if the meeting lasts
longer.

In summary: Our concept is to
design a furniture that helps
employees to communicate, to
get inspired, to be creative and
to share ideas and knowledge.
This kind of furniture completes the open office system and uses the whole potential of the
open space. In other words: Only if a new kind of furniture is used in combination with the
conventional furniture, the value of the open space is maximised.

We named our product AGORA. It is the name of a public meeting point in the city in ancient
greece.

36 Concept

Kiosk sketches

Board sketches

Concept 37

After we had the archetype on paper we discussed how to put the three components together
and built a card board mock-up to figure out how it works. The idea was, that the components
can be used as one and also be taken apart and used seperately. The stool functions as a carrier
for the shelf and the board at the same time.

The drawings show the use and the dimensions. They are geared to the different positions the
user can be in: standing, sitting and leaning.

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After we discussed the mock-up with our tutors we simplified our design. The board and the
shelves became one element which is movable and carries two stools at its bottom.

We showed the following slides to THULEMA during the 13th week of the semester.

The use shows that AGORA does not only combine three different components (board, shelves,
stools) but is able to create different spaces within the open space tailored to the needs of the
employees.

We selected the materials according to our requirements of having a variety of materials which
create a homelike atmosphere: steel sheet metal (white coating), wooden frame (preferably ash
wood) and grey felt as a material with a warm texture.

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It took the last four weeks of the semester to build the prototype. We made changes on the
dimensions, added details and had to answer a lot of questions: How are the wood parts
connected? How is the sheet metal joined with the wood frame? How to make the sheet metal
stiff enough? How do the shelves look like in detail? How are the shelves connected to the wood
frame? How do the stools look like so that they are stable but produced as simple as possible?

Madhes built AGORA in SolidWorks and was in contact with Pent and the engineer Tarmo Liloson
at KITMAN, to make sure that it is possible to produce the parts as they were.

The following pages show the results as renderings, technical drawings and finally as prototype.

What happened during this time: We changed the width of the furniture from 500mm to 750mm.
Even though we wanted to keep the appearance as light and slim as possible we found that it is
necessary for the user to properly work on the board.
To stiffen the sheet metal board we added two bends to its shape. The one in the middle
functions as pen holder and the one at the top replaces the wood part. For the prototype the
board is produced in two parts (p.52), because it was easier for KITMAN to do. But it is possible
to punch the shape as one part. Every steel metal part is powder-coated in white.
The wood frame has to be assembled around the sheet metal board. It holds the sheet metal by
a groove in the wood (p.50). For the prototype the wood frame is made up of oak.
The shelves are not directly connected to the wood frame. They are supported by a 8mm bent
solid steel bar (p.54). To find out the proper diameter for the bar Maarjus Kirs helped us to
calculate it. The 8mm bar is able to support a weight of 20kg. We planned the shelves to be
made up of grey synthetic felt. The five shelves would be molded in one part and then cut out.
They are lying on the steel bar construction, retained by two bends on their longer sides (p.55).
We gave their surface a wave texture (p.55), which makes the stored objects better hold on to
the shelves when the furniture is moved. For the prototype we were not able to mold the felt.
This is why the shelves for the prototype are made up of steel sheet metal covered with felt.
Also the stools are supposed to be molded out of grey synthetic felt. We wanted their
appearance to be as simple as possible. The basic form originates from the wood frame. They are
cupped and by the handhold on the buttom they can also be used as a container. To make them
stable we added a bend on the front and back side. For the prototype we made them up of rigid
foam which we covered with felt.
The coaster wheels enable the furniture to move. Two of them are supposed to have a stopper.

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Side view

Top view

Front view Back view

Product 45

Use as a shelf

Use as a space divider

46 Product

Use as a shelf in another way

Use as a half open temporary meeting place

Product 47

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667.3
680.5

R2

9
5

5 36.5
D
D

2x 5

670

Sheet metal 1.2mm,
White matte color powder coat PART9


E
E

PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL (UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED) ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MM Project/Title: Open office furniture - Material: Sheet metal 1.2mm thick
SOLE PROPERTY OF AL-TECH INST. ANY REPRODUCTION TOLERANCES 3rd ANGLE PROJECTION Sheet metal Board part2
IN PART OR AS A WHOLE WITHOUT THE WRITTEN X ± 1.0 ANGLE: Sheet size: X'Ref No: Scale: Qty: 1 Finish: White matte color powder coat
± 2°

XX ± 0.5 XXX ± 0.2 A4 1:10
PROHIBITED.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Sheet: 2 of 2

Academic Use Only

Sheet metal board

52 Product

Assembled sheet metal board

Product 53

1 2 3 4 5 6

REVISIONS
A

A
B
B

130
8

73

ITEM NO. PART NUMBER DESCRIPTION QTY.
1 rack1 support round bar X=139 2
84°

C
C

R 15 3 rack3 support round bar X=241 2
X


73

D
D


Note: 8mm round bar Drawn by: Date: Approved by: Approved by date:

E
E

(UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED) ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MM
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
Project/Title: Open office furniture -rack support round bar Material: Sheet bar
± 2°

XX ± 0.5 XXX ± 0.2 A3 1:2
PROHIBITED.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Sheet: 8 of 08

Academic Use Only

Shelf support
1 2 3 4 5 6

REVISIONS
A

A
X 1.2

B
B

9 9

ITEM NO. PART NUMBER DESCRIPTION QTY.
1 Shelve 1 X=147 Y=650 1
UP 85.00° R 1
UP 85.00° R 1

2 Shelve 2 X=198 Y=650 1
C
C

3 Shelve 3 X=249 Y=650 1
Y

4 Shelve 4 X=298.5 Y=650 1
5 Shelve 5 X=330 Y=750 1
D
D


E
E

PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL (UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED) ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MM Project/Title: Open office furniture -Shelves Material: Sheet metal
± 2°

XX ± 0.5 XXX ± 0.2 A3 1:5
PROHIBITED.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Sheet: 8 of 08

Academic Use Only

Shelves made up of steel sheet metal for the prototype

54 Product

Calculation: an eight mm solid steel bar can carry 20kg

Shelf support with shelf Assembly of the prototype

The shelf is supposed to be made up of molded synthetic felt. The wave structure keeps objects from falling off.

Product 55

1 2 3 4 5 6
REVISIONS
A

36 36

A
375

B
B

k
10 Thic
255 R1 0
TY P

C
C

400

D
D

100 3
R1

53
330 375

E
E

PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL (UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED) ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MM Project/Title: Open office furniture - Chair Material:
IN PART OR AS A WHOLE WITHOUT THE WRITTEN X ± 1.0 ANGLE: Sheet size: X'Ref No: Scale: Qty: Finish:
± 2°
XX ± 0.5 XXX ± 0.2 A3 1:5
PROHIBITED.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Sheet: 1 of 01
Academic Use Only

56 Product
Stool

The stools for the prototype are made up of rigid foam covered with synthetic felt

Product 57

References:
—www.thulema.ee
—www.kitman.ee
—www.martela.com
—www.steelcase.com
—www.myturnstone.com
—www.vitra.com
—www.knoll.com
—www.o-plus-a.com
—www.garage48.org
—www.tank.ee
—www.tehnopol.ee
— www.be-design.info
—http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html

—Duffy, Francis: The new office. London, 1997 (Conran Octopus Limited)

60 References

Thank you:
Pent, Martin, Maarjus and Henri for your enduring help with everything.
Rein Erdel for building the wood frame for the prototype.
Thulema (Ilo Rannu and Tarmo Liloson) for producing the metal parts for the prototype.
Nordifa AB for sponsoring the felt for the stools and shelves.

Acknowledgments 61

Spring 2012
www.design-engineering.ee

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