Coworking space furnishing

  • Zuzanna Wilkirska

Coworking is a wonderful idea; I was happy to work with this subject. This project (school project, 3rd year) concerns a modular workstation, dedicated for public coworking spaces like reading rooms or free access coworking spaces in shopping malls. Since working for hours seated in one position presents a health hazard, the main focus of the project was to enable changing the position. This unit features “normal” position, standing desk, and leaned-back position (with legs up).

This project was developed at Ergonomic's lab; dimensions matter ;) Seriously. Not only the requirements of sitting positions, but also (for example) height of the unit. There was a lot of research on coworking places and needs of people working there; privacy and psychological comfort appeared to be impotrant factors.
Modular units can be arranged different ways according to the needs of place & space. The thing i've found impotrant: you always sit back to the "wall", facing the open space or other coworkers (making observations at actual coworking spaces and reading rooms, i've noticed that people tend to choose places by the wall, so that they can see the room, and there are possibly no people walking behind them)




We differ in size. People cannot bring their own suitable chairs to a public coworking space; thus my project is equiped in an adjustable pillow of the back support. The regulation mechanism is simple and unexpensive - a weight on the other side of the back support’s board which equalize the pillow. The friction makes it stay wherever we leave it.
The unit consists of many planes and surfaces. The way they are suspended leaves a well-thought space for personal things, backpack, shopping, coat... We often bring a lot of objects, which we’d rather keep close by when working in a public space.
The electric plugs are easily accesible from both sides of the workstation.
The project features a special table adapted for access from the front or from the side. When using it while sitting in a leaned-back position, we can lower the desk.
The table is small. Contrary to the custom, we move it towards us, instead of moving the seat.
2016
Design Faculty of ASP Kraków tutors: Jakub Gołębiewski, Krzysztof Hamiga