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| My Studio Environments lets an organization reap the benefits of a satisfied and effective work force.
It fosters comfort, well-being, and productivity in personal, human-scaled offices where people control their own privacy, their connection with
others, and the direction they face.
This unique package of capabilities helps organizations attract and keep in-demand knowledge workers that drive growth and innovation.
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People in My Studio offices can open their streetside doors to
signal accessibility and feel connected
with outside activity. |
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My Studio--a wall-based system
My Studio's steel frames are finished with painted, glass, or veneer cladding to create four walls. Each wall has a concise, prescribed set of
components to optimize a worker's performance. |
Closing the translucent streetside door of the
My Studio office creates a private office for
solitary
work without blocking light. |
| Personal, Comfortable, Controllable
Vanishing Point. The design features curved outer corners, open inner corners, translucent materials and "floating" walls so an office
feels larger.
About Face. My Studio reorients workers; they can face outbound, toward the middle, or inbound, whatever feels most comfortable.
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My Studio side wall shutters let people adjust privacy
and view; different wall heights create
a layered
effect and let light flow throughout a space. |
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Zone Logic. Each workspace zone supports a specific aspect of the knowledge work process--create, display, and
organize materials, and filter interruptions.
Permeable Privacy. Translucent glass shutters give people control over their privacy
and level of connection with coworkers; a door helps control interruptions. |
Four zones--Create, Display, Organize, Filter--wrap around
the person to comfortably support work;
My Studio
components are designed specifically for each zone. |
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Inverted Landscape
Nontraditional approach. The highest walls are on the outside; side walls are lower; the center "spine" wall is the lowest.
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With the highest walls on the aisle side, My Studio
inverts the traditional workstation landscape
to
support collaboration among team members. |
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Accommodates collaboration. Team members are more accessible to adjacent workers in a cluster. |
My Studio with 46-inch-high walls provides
openness and accessibility. |
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Intelligent Colors, Materials, Finishes
Concise, coordinated pallette. Simplifies design and ensures harmonious combinations.
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By wrapping the office around the individual, My Studio
puts the person at the center of work,
providing
the feel of a personal, private office. |
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Architectural complement. Provided by four warm and cool neutrals and two metallics designed for outside surfaces.
Furniture quality. Nature-inspired colors for the inside create richness and depth. |
With the streetside (aisle-side) door closed, a worker has
more privacy, while the translucent
cladding lets in light. |
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Technology Support
In-frame distribution. The center wall routes cables and four-circuit, eight-wire power. |
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Shutters are translucent; they create a barrier but
don't block light and visual contact. |
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Generous capacity. A powered center wall holds 120 4-pair UTP cables at a 40 percent fill rate.
Power and data
access. There are two receptacles on each side of each frame; also access at the curved outer corner. |
The concave primary surface lets the worker face
any direction; shutters can be open or
closed
for connection or privacy. |
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Environmental Design
Meets strict standards. Developed according the McDonough Braungart Cradle-to-Cradle protocol. |
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The My Studio office is a personal space, with
furniture-like qualities and a human scale;
walls
step up from the center to the outside,
inverting the traditional systems landscape. |
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Recyclable. 74 percent recyclable and made from 28 percent recycled materials.
Low-emitting. GreenGuard certified,
helping customers achieve LEED credits. |
The open bookcase provides storage space and support
for the primary and secondary surfaces. |
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Design Story
When Herman Miller asked designer Douglas Ball to develop a new system that would address an organization's real estate constraints
while maximizing the effectiveness of the 6' x 8' workstation, he came back with a concept that could change the landscape of systems furniture.
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conceiving of My Studio, Ball went back to the early days when there were just desks, returns, and credenzas, and when a 6'x 8' space was considered generous.
And he made the person the center of the workstation.
"I worked out in my mind a plan as to how you would reorient a person in that space," he says.
"How would you have a principle work surface, a credenza behind, and something alongside that would give a person more storage and more counter space?"
He says his mind was "really into the very small, very controlled environment. The corners would be rounded. There's a circle and the person would sit in
the center of it. You would just swing the chair around and everything was right there, within reach."
That basic idea is the foundation of the design
and development of My Studio.
Ball also introduced the idea of a high aisle-side wall as opposed to what's been traditionally done with the panel environment
where the center tends to be very high with overhead storage attached.
"We wanted to do the opposite," Ball says. "We said we'd like to have the center
low so you can see across to the other side. You can see the worker across from you, but the height of that is critical. We wanted to be able to block eye vision
from a seated position, but if you lift your head, you can make eye contact. With this product, you can have collaboration and you don't have to move."
The design of My Studio was guided by a number of significant findings gathered by Herman Miller Research from various sources, including the following:
- A trend in workplace design is smaller workstations.
- Workplace design is a key ingredient in worker and organizational effectiveness.
- Organizations that want to recruit and retain top talent need to consider the benefits of furniture and workplace design for high-end
knowledge workers.
- Knowledge workers need concentration, but they also need to collaborate and communicate.
- Increased stress can be the result of an inability to control privacy. Increased control reduces stress.
- Feeling good in the work environment may keep a worker performing at a high level.
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