Responding to change is fundamental to successful workplace design, and to ensure the longevity of office furniture and fittings, malleability is key.
Schiavello has released a new product range reflecting the values of fluidity, flexibility and change, to support the needs of contemporary workplaces into the future. Schiavello’s strategy outlines three key considerations for the hybrid workplace and highlights what solutions best enable them.
Diverse work environments inside the office
Contemporary workspaces need to support a range of activities, from focused concentration, to private meetings, to collaborative activities. Beyond workstations, Schiavello offers Focus Booths and a range of Focus Quiet Rooms designed to offer quiet concentration opportunities in open-plan work spaces, each offering different levels of audio and visual privacy.
The Toku Collection – named after the Japanese word for “talk” – invites conversation and collaboration through a range of benches, ottomans, and tables. In between, the new Valli collection of powered lounges and sofas provides privacy and comfort for workers away from the desk.
Supporting connection outside of the office
The merging of the physical and digital worlds is paramount to the longevity of a workplace. Purposively designed spaces that keep connectivity in mind are leading the way in workplace design, enabling high-tech integration and fluidity of digital connection.
Schiavello’s fully-powered and ventilated Focus Quiet Room collection offers specialised lighting and acoustics for video conferencing. Portable power is also essential for convenience and mobility, and moveable furniture, like laptop tables and charge towers, enable digital connection from anywhere.
Schiavello’s unified work platform Nora Space offers workers a solution to managing the integration of the digital and physical worlds. The platform also features an IoT software system that allows users the flexibility to remotely book desks and teamwork zones.
Easily transform furniture configuration to entire floor plans
Team zones should be designed to be reconfigured for independent or collaborative activities with minimal effort. Similarly, floor plans should be adapted to accomodate activities from training, to workshops and presentations.
Schiavello’s furniture is lightweight, portable, and reconfigurable, enabling workplaces to quickly and easily adapt spaces to meet a variety of different needs. Portable items, like the Henge Whiteboard, Aire Fold Table or Aire Media Stand, glide around on wheels for easy reconfiguration. The climate desking system’s clever articulator, now incorporated into the Krossi sit-stand, means desks can be expanded or compacted on a whim.
To see this thinking come to life in 3D animation, view Schiavello’s Purposeful Workplace.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
