Cove Collection
Office seating collection for enclosed booth spaces Industrial Design Internship at Haworth
Growing Demands for New Spaces
Post-Covid, the office has required more than individual desks in order to encourage people to work in person.
New Spaces,
New Seats
With the rise of these enclosed collaboration spaces, seating that work inside these spaces need to be designed.
What is Missing?
What is required for seating in this context? While some pieces in the portfolio included some aspects, none included all:
Mobility, Compact, Posture Variety, and Storage
Objective
How to design seating for enclosed booths?
Ideation
Cove Collection
Duo Seat
Sato Stool
A seating collection for enclosed booths designed to facilitate focus, collaboration, and refreshment. Cove Collection warms up spaces and invites users to have a seat.
Duo
Soft Seat
The "Double Chair"
A chair stacked upon a chair. This imagery captures the essence of Duo, a single module that allows for two orientations of sitting.
Multi-Posture,
Multi-Interaction
Focus or collaboration work, the interaction is customizable to users. Utilizing the same module, different dynamics can be created through seating orientation or chair positioning.
Versatile Applications
Designed to accommodate various contexts such as individual focus, restoration, or group collaboration. These orientation can facilitate the desired purpose of the space.
Open Floor Plan
Although designed for enclosed booths, the Duo module can also work on open floor plans.
Emotional Qualities
Subtle sensitivities to curves and proportions evoke the feeling of "acceptance" as user begin to understand and embrace the piece.
Sato
Booth Stool
Finding the Balance
Mobile, yet bulky. Compact, yet static. These were the stools in the current portfolio. Designing a stool for booths called for a compact and mobile stool.
Seamless Storage
In compact booths, integrated storage frees up space, while the base’s subtle curve invites users to rest a bag within reach.
Rethinking Mobility
Mobility doesn’t rely on wheels. Minimizing the stool’s floor contact increases ease of movement, while a carved lip under the seat offers a natural grip for lifting and repositioning.
