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Office
Cubicles
 Facility designer Darrell de Tienne suggests that the first
implication of the project team approach for the facility is that "the
individual workstation no longer works as a single cubicle and has
extended past the four furniture partitions to project spaces." People
who spend most of their time working in teams have less need for
a self-sufficient individual workstation than they have for a variety
of team settings. Project teams need space where they can meet for
several categories of tasks. Some teams need quiet conference rooms,
perhaps equipped with video or teleconferencing equipment. Some need
meeting rooms that can be rearranged to accommodate both face-to-face
discussions and shoulder-to-shoulder presentations. Others need bullpen
settings, where team members can work individually at their own computer
terminals or drawing boards, yet be in constant visual and verbal
contact with other team members. Many teams need a combination of
group settings since they engage in a variety of different activities
in the course of their project work.
Individual workstations in most conventional settings usually
contain a chair or two for guests and perhaps a table for small conferences.
Often, they'll house considerable storage, sometimes of items that
are duplicated in several other individual workstations. There is
no need for this duplication of conference and storage space in a
well-designed project team area. All group activities are carried
out in conference spaces shared among all the workers in the area,
and any reference materials needed by more than one person are stored
in a central resource area. |
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