Three design directions, grasp the essence of office design!

When the workers end their long homestay life and gradually return to work, are you and your colleagues already wearing masks? In this special period, do you miss the casual and warm nature of the office more? In this issue of the master's point of view, let's talk about the relationship between office design and work quality ~

Work Environment and Employee Satisfaction
Work environment and employee satisfaction

Research shows that among the incentive theories that affect job satisfaction, Maslow's (Abraham Maslow) hierarchy of needs theory occupies the first place, and according to the survey of Dongfang.com in 2019, taking Shanghai as an example, more than 90% of the respondents have expressed Satisfaction with working hours. It can be seen that the level of needs of laborers in our country has been raised to the basic survival needs, and the attention to working hours has been transferred to the attention to the living conditions within 8 hours of working hours.

Today, work has been regarded as part of the quality of life. On the one hand, the younger generation has raised questions about the meaning of work itself. They hope that the work is interesting and that the work conforms to their own outlook on life. On the other hand, employed workers have also begun to value comfort in the office. Therefore, today's enterprises not only attach importance to salary, but also try their best to provide high-quality working space and environment for employees.

What can office design do?
What can office design do?

In fact, not only in China, Google and Facebook are the pioneers in office environment issues. When, where and how employees work is no longer the focus. More and more ingenious office design has emerged in the world, injecting energy into the cohesion of enterprise spirit and enthusiastic and positive office atmosphere.

For example, e-commerce giant Amazon has built an artificial sphere "tropical rain forest" in 6 years, investing a lot of money to control the indoor temperature difference between morning and evening and the environmental humidity, so as to provide the normal growth of more than 40,000 green plants, only to simulate the most real natural environment for employees and stimulate the creativity of the team to the greatest extent.

In the absence of investment in science and technology, good design thinking can also help a lot. For example, AICL, a Mumbai communications consulting company with a large open layout, has designed a series of overlapping elements between life, work and landscape spaces to meet the needs of open communication when employees provide creative solutions for different enterprises.

Looking at the country, Tencent's new global headquarters, Shenzhen Binhai Building, is designed with three "belts" to connect three different working and living spaces, taking into account climatic conditions, such as the model of the sun and wind, the view of nature and the sea, etc., so that the building has excellent natural lighting and ventilation, and realizes better linkage between various organizations and departments.

This issue of the red dot master opinion column also focuses on creating better work quality through office design. I share with you 3 red dot product design award winning products. they are not limited by the organization form and scale of the company and can be applied in almost all workplaces. They also contain the mystery of office product design. We have summed up three design directions and shared them with you.

Manufacturer: Fursys Inc., Seoul, South Korea
Interior design: Eunjee Kim Tahn Shin
Design: Claudio Bellini Design and Design Company, Milan, Italy
2019 Red Dot Award

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/Design with both functionality and spatial beauty/
PLAYWORKS
Working seat

In recent years, the popular new type of shared workspace has become a designer who actively responds to the needs of a high-quality working environment, and a field to show his strengths. For modern office environment, PLAYWORKS can not only realize personalized design workplace, but also realize creative communication between colleagues. The 30-degree rotation mechanism of the seat to the left or right and the ergonomic design of the backrest plate provide a high degree of flexibility, thereby increasing comfort and natural interactive communication. The detachable screen module constitutes a private space and ensures the necessary concentration of work. Such innovative products that enhance the working atmosphere have become the expectation of the Red Dot Award in recent years, and PLAYWORKS have won the 2019 Red Dot Award.

Manufacturer: China Zhejiang Anji UE Furniture Co., Ltd.
Internal design: Jun Cheng
2019 Red Dot Award

02
/Design to Improve Staff Creativity and Basic Health/
MARICS
Conference chair

An ergonomic or more comfortable seat on the back is one of the ways to improve the creativity and health of employees. Marics is a lightweight and elegantly designed chair, suitable for both the workplace and visitors or meeting rooms. It is characterized by a clear, organic curve and is equipped with an adjustment and tilt mechanism that allows a maximum tilt of 19 degrees. The innovative 4-axis chassis ensures balance when moving, while the integrated joystick can intuitively adjust the seat height. Therefore, users can both concentrate on their work and relax their sitting posture.

Manufacturer: ThinkingWorks
Internal Design: ThinkingWorks
2018 Red Dot Award

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/Based on the nature of the user's work,
Design of the relationship between workspace and people/
Workstation-ThinkingQuietly
Workstation

The ThinkingWorks "Shen Si Workstation" (ThinkingQuietly) uses noise-proof materials to create a balanced sound environment and a well-organized and comfortable office environment. The wall components innovate a quiet area and temporarily isolated from the adjacent seat, allowing users to focus on their work. In order to meet the needs of the emotional side, the use of freely adjustable components and open architecture, both easy to communicate and interact with people; lighting and color exquisite integration into the space, help to match the various types of office.

Through the above design case, we have come to the key to creating better work quality through office design: designers not only need to consider various factors such as ergonomics, interactive cooperation and environmental shaping, but also cooperate with the current social work situation. Grasp, coupled with technological innovation and application.