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Salem
Civic Center
Design: J. Lundy
IARC 584
Professor: L. Zimmer
Isometeric
Open Offices
Fall 2010
Design Concept
The design concept for the Public Works department is a concept for the typical department in the new Salem Civic Center. The main focus here is to allow more natural
light throughout the building. The closed offices, conference rooms, and service spaces
are in the core of the building. The entire space around the exterior wall is open office
systems furniture, with low panels and glazing. Most closed areas also include clerestory windows to let the natural light continue through the space.
The layout is based on the idea of “neighborhoods” of each department. Every department
has a local manager in a closed office, a city of workstations, and neighborhood park in
the form of a community meeting area. Print and coffee services are also centally located
within each neighborhood with the idea of bringing people into the center to casually
bump into each other.
The workstation design is a standard cubicle that can be customized and upgraded as a
person moves up the heirarchy. Most workers within the Public Works department will
get low panelled workstations to allow collaboration. Engineers are in more private cubicles with heigher panels. The metal runners in each station allow for data and electrical hookups as well as customizable hanging storage.
Public Works
Floor plan
neighborhoods
Cedar reuse - To take advantage of the quality and
quantity of cedar panels
in the existing open office, the panels will be
reused in three distinct
loations.
1. Custom reception desk
2. Copy/Print stations
3. Office door accent
This will utilize the cedar in locations that
are other than the current open office so that
workers will get a break
from the panels.
Systems Furniture:
The furniture selected
for this proposal will
be the Knoll Currents
open office system.
Connected.
Mobile.
Universal.
This system includes
technology
managment
and comprehensive offmodule planning flexibility.
Task chairs will be supplied by Steelcase. The
Leap Chair is a prizewinning ergonomic solution to office work.