Office Project

Children’s Inn Project

Project Objective: Design an office for Next, a consumer robotics company with a new headquarters in Boston. Incorporate fixed and fluid environments and virtual and in-person work opportunities.

Process:

For the Steelcase student design competition, I was encouraged to decide what type of consumer robotics the fictional client would be developing and selling. I chose to make my company sell kitchen and cooking based robotic products for the home.

Using the program, Boston’s waterways and roadways, and the merging of technology and art in Boston, the idea of incorporating resonated as a concept.

In the main open work area, the workstations run in two directions. There is a main spine with multiple perpendicular axes, and the space where both axes come together, or incorporate, became central lounges for each team to use. My research showed that in a post-pandemic workplace, many people want the comfort of home in their offices and my design reflected that.

Earthy tones and natural materials inspired me for this project’s palette, along with the work of Boston artists which were shown in murals.