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Humans
- putting people beside windows
that can be
opened and external blinds
can be controlled to
reduce glare
- giving people control over their
ventilation/heating
needs
- employee awareness programmes
about using
the features and items over
which they have
control in an ecologically
designed building
- giving workers control over their
individual work
environment: privacy,
light, and temperature
- human-scale lets people feel comfortable
- knowledge of changing weather
patterns connects
us to the greater world around
us
- making a sustainable goal of creating
a building
where people like to work
or live
- constructing spaces of natural
materials
Layout
- German building regulations limit
the depth of the
floor plate by regulating
how far most workers can
be from a window (7.5 metres)
- Many new German office buildings
contain plans
of one or two-person cells,
each with operable
windows and control over
temp and ventilation
- the 'combi-office' design puts
individual cell
clusters around open group
spaces
- incorporating plants into the
interior design is
natural and they help clean
the air
- central atria offer the penetration
of daylight,
natural ventilation opportunities,
and a common
space at the bottom for gathering
- the atria can be used for gardens,
gatherings,
entrance halls, eating spaces,
...
- office layout with direct access
to windows and a
plan that is broken-up to
avoid large anonymous
football fields of desks
- four storeys or less encourages
stair use rather
than elevators
- developing a plan that emphasizes
potential for
interaction and the resulting
development of ideas
within a collegial environment
- shared function and breakout rooms
located in
the centre of each floor/area
- clustering of workstations in
groups
- managers can be located amongst
clusters or
have enclosed offices located
amid workstations
- the staircase, which creates the
main connector
between floors can be discontinuous
with a large
landing between floors to
encourage informal
meetings and impromptu conversations
- assessing the programme of the
office space to
emphasize the natural 'heart
of the office' where
people can casually come
together and informally
communicate (printer, copier,
and coffee stations)
- creating the opportunity for an
employee to lift his/
her head and stretch his/her
vision in order to
avoid eye strain.
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