desk for an architecture student

maple, veneer plywood, steel, Plexiglas

In order to better the designer, one must better develop their tools. The desk is a creative’s headquarters; a place for both the conception of ideas and the project’s production and execution. By facilitating this relationship between desk and student, workflow and output can be enhanced.

Furniture in this sense is a machine and becomes an extension of the body itself. By combining these concepts of functionality, ergonomics and tectonics, the desk can prove its usefulness over the course of an architectural semester.

Data collection ensured a scientific understanding of the problem; student surveys were printed, cut, and distributed to the 384 students enrolled in the B.Arch and M.Arch programs. Aiming to understand the quintessential behavior of a desk, the survey proposed new features, asked participants to rate their current desk space, the surrounding environment as well as amenity proximity.