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Tomorrow’s Workplace Design Competition
Competition
What will the workplace of 2021 look like? Architects, designers, and students tackled this question in the
“Tomorrow’s Workplace” competition hosted by Staples Business Advantage and Metropolis magazine. In
designing their near-future offices, contestants had to incorporate top workplace themes such as collaboration,
wellness and productivity, office culture, and sustainability. Entrants also gave their own vision of what will make
workplaces in 2021 effective and productive. The top five winners are featured here. We identified several trends
shared across the winning entries that addressed this evolving work environment: PRESS RELEASE
01 Flexibility & Customization 02 Mobility
Workspaces can be physically reconfigured An individual workspace can be moved to a
to fit worker needs and environmental factors communal area, may not have any walls and
may be tailored to personal preferences. may even be packed into a backpack.
03 Open Workflow 04 Sustainability
Moving beyond meeting rooms to galleries, Workspaces may be outdoors in nature or
and other shared spaces, workspaces will be repurpose old warehouses and buildings, and CONTEST INFO
more open to encourage collaboration. can be redesigned without traditional renovation.
Tomorrow’s Workplace Design Competition | 2
WINNER
Co-Gen Flex
Space
BY ETHELIND COBLIN ARCHITECT (TEAM: MATTHIAS NEUMANN, LOUIS LIPSON,
NIKOLA GRADINSKI, ERIC COHEN, ETHELIND COBLIN, JENNIFER JUDGE): Click the
following link to see more of Ethelind Coblin Architect’s work: ethelindcoblinarchitect.com.
Our project focuses on the urban dimension of temporary keyboards, with access to printing, 3-D printing, storage-
flexible workspaces and how young entrepreneurial on-demand, as well as conferencing technology, software
professionals and freelancers may interface with an active program usage on-demand, and other evolving hardware
community of seniors. The chosen site is a large residential and software. The proposed structure accommodates a
co-op, Penn South, which is also one of the largest naturally cafe and food court with food truck parking spaces for users
occurring retirement communities in Manhattan. and the wider neighborhood. Further, a daycare facility will
provide daycare space. Both will add to the financial viability
While shared workspace offices are proliferating, the
of the project.
generational component seems rarely considered. What
draws many independent professionals to shared workplace
environments is the possibility of broad social connectivity. What draws many independent
A co-generational workspace operates under the professionals to shared workplace
assumption that a multi-generational cross-over can add
environments is the possibility of
significant value. This may mean access to decades of work
experience for young professionals and possible technical
broad social connectivity.
expertise from young professionals. The flexible, individual
work spaces are equipped with plug and play monitors and
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A multi-generational cross-over space can add significant value.
For the chosen site, a new two-story building is proposed. Spatial hierarchy and diversity: The main spaces on the
Showcased Trends: The program and co-generational intent requires a universal first floor are the temporary flexible work environment, a
design approach that allows easy access to all spaces triangular space slightly below street level, and the double-
yy Flexibility & Customization
and amenities, and negotiates spatial hierarchies, visual height foyer space with adjacent food and social amenities.
yy Openness
orientation, acoustic environments, and controlled space, The co-gen flex space is defined by a concrete enclosure
while providing a generous and flexible work environment. that holds safe-deposit style storage lockers for members
The program and spatial experience provide intimacy and of the work space. The second floor provides more intimate
spatial control. meeting and lounging pods for relaxation and group
work. A courtyard separates the workspace area from the
The renderings intend to convey materiality, lighting and
daycare facility.
a variety of spatial situations. Materiality: A wood panel
ceiling, irregular wood columns and other absorptive
> See Full Submission
materials provide acoustical control to allow for a large yet
intimate spatial experience. Light: All areas have access to
daylighting; workspace environments can control glare and
adverse lighting impact. The main space is lit by a large
clearstory window with northern light.
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RUNNER UP
FoAM
BY JIE ZHANG: Jie Zhang is a designer, researcher, and co-founder of OPT, a platform
for design inquiry and technological research. Check out the interesting work showcased
on OPT at optopt.tumblr.com.
The proposal celebrates the rapidly growing freelancer acoustically insulating, reimagine the workplace at the scale
economy, which makes up 35 percent of the U.S. workforce of the body. The renderings illustrate scenarios of how we
in 2016 and is predicted to grow to 40 percent by 2020. work within an inflatable office, in a FoAM working area on
a garage floor, and at a FoAM community on an adapted
Currently, digital nomads flow between homes, coffee
parking lot. The diagrams further describe the technical
shops and co-working spaces. In the near future, they will
details of the inflatable office, its formal and functional
demand not only more space, but also mobile, personalized
possibilities, and elements in converting obsolete parking
and responsive environments. The increasingly digitalized
infrastructure into FoAM workplaces.
lifestyle will also create a desire to reconnect with the physical
world and with other human beings. FoAM emerges out of
such needs. Showcased Trends:
FoAM aims to improve overall efficiency for existing and yy Flexibility
new businesses and also unleashes the latent value in yy Mobility
vacant city infrastructure. Inspired by inflatable architecture
from the 1960s, FoAM is made of multiple active layers.
The inflatables, collapsible but otherwise thermally and > See Full Submission
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Photo Gallery: FoAM by Jie Zhang
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HONORABLE MENTION
PAMO: Prefabricated
Adaptive Mobile Offices
BY JIN YOUNG SONG (WITH ANDREW KOUDLAI): Jin Young Song, AIA, assistant
professor at University at Buffalo, SUNY, is a registered architect in New York State. He is
a founding principal at Dio Inno Architecture.
Future office = Gallery for knowledge networking and Sustainability for the Open Framework. The configuration
collaboration. PAMO suggests a gallery-like space for people of larger spaces is composed of aggregations of the base
to walk and talk, with nodes for collaboration and reflection. unit—a 3.65m x 5m module. Two of them (3.65m x 10m)
This system allows for the adaptive reuse of any space, such create a small workstation unit. Four (7.3m x 10m) create a
as an abandoned warehouse. Better Ergonomics = More gathering space, small library, outdoor cafe or lobby space.
walking + More talking. As new technology accelerates the There are also walkway units and garden units (3.65m x
working culture and combines with more flexible social lives, 1.52m) connecting programs.
it will push people to walk and talk to each other more than
sitting in a designated workstation would allow.
Showcased Trends:
Fluid Technology + Prefabrication = Office can happen
anywhere. As prefabrication in architecture combines with
yy Mobility
post-industrial warehouses, the office becomes more like a
yy Sustainability
gallery and cafe. Sustainability and Flexibility = Investment
for the Future. PAMO can respond as rapidly as technology
> See Full Submission
changes without the limitations of traditional construction
and renovation.
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Photo Gallery: PAMO by Jin Young Song
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HONORABLE MENTION
Yuka: a Japanese
Inspired Communal Area
BY JOSELINE DELGADO TORRES: Joseline Delgado Torres, from Chihuahua, Mexico, is
a student at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Check out her online portfolio
to see more of her work: www.behance.net/jostor.
A workspace that promotes the idea of collaboration, literal sense. The essence of the Japanese floor culture is
integration, and face-to-face communication are the depicted by users interacting in a playful and collaborative
aspects Yuka envisions. By implementing Japanese floor manner. Each photo and rendering instills an ambience of
culture, Yuka emits an ambience of hominess, playfulness, calm simplicity to contrast our constant use of advancing
and comfort while bringing out our child-like selves, curious technology. Through materials and function, Yuka’s design
to interact with our environment and the people in it. elaborates on reviving our inner child, unafraid and curious
to engage with our environment and the people in it.
Collaboration: Throughout the smaller details of the furniture
pieces, such as the subtle rope that unifies the floor
cushions, or the floor detail that gives the illusion of tables
Showcased Trends:
being connected, each piece of furniture illustrates and
provokes human connection. Health: Approaching the floor yy Mobility
culture lifestyle helps users improve digestion, make them yy Openness
more flexible, and calms their mind.
Each piece of furniture was designed to illustrate the > See Full Submission
movement of collaboration in both a metaphoric and
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Photo Gallery: Yuka by Joseline Delgado Torres
Tomorrow’s Workplace Design Competition | 10HONORABLE MENTION
Phase Space &
the Technobody
BY DIETMAR KOERING (WITH SIMON BECKER & DUANE HARRY): Dietmar Koering
is an architect, researcher, and educator living in Cologne & Berlin. He is head of the
architectural research office ARPHENOTYPE.
A Phase Space is a space where all possible states of a workspaces. Also, projections on the wall enable instant
system are represented. The Technobody deals with the feedback. People can immediately see and steer processes
dehumanization through our extended phenotypes. How to address the needs of the business.
does the workspace look and how does it relate to the
The renderings are a polemical statement, structured from
human body if the architecture is an intelligent interface or
a utopic vision down to a very concrete application of an
artefact?
interactive table in an open office structure.
The Workplace of the Future is about the intelligent fusion
of complex systems. Therewith, the design of furniture and
offices is not shape-driven anymore. The new task is to blur Showcased Trend:
the boundaries between technology, interface, and being in yy Flexibility & Customization
relation to real-time data and technology. Technology cards
have been created, based on a market scan of available
and futuristic technologies. The idea is to provide workers
with these cards and to play according to their wishes. > See Full Submission
The shown interactive table with screen-less projection is
just one tool, which will become an essential part of future
Tomorrow’s Workplace Design Competition | 11Photo Gallery: Phase Space and the Technobody by Dietmar Koering
Tomorrow’s Workplace Design Competition | 12Nurturing & Innovating the
Workspaces of Tomorrow
As the workplace evolves, so do customer and employee expectations. To help set your space
apart, Staples Business Advantage® offers bright solutions, hands-on assistance, creative services
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can help you create the best possible space for your employees and customers.
Brittany Knauth Nikki D’Addario
Marketing Manager Public Relations Manager
brittany.knauth@staples.com nikki.daddario@staples.com
FRESH IDEAS
Tomorrow’s Workplace Design Competition | 13Thank You
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