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Designing for Movement in a Workplace Built for Sitting

ArchDaily·Written by Kiana Buchberger·about 1 month ago
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Sylphy by Boss Design x Okamura. Image Courtesy of Boss Design For all the spatial experimentation of the contemporary workplace , one condition has remained largely unchanged: people are still sitting. Studies suggest that office workers spend up to 89% of their working day seated —close to 36 hours a week—despite decades of ergonomic awareness. As workplaces become more flexible, social, and design-led, this contradiction becomes harder to ignore. The office is no longer organized around a single mode of operation, nor by a fixed spatial logic. Work has become multifunctional, shifting between collaboration and concentration, collective exchange and individual focus. In response, architecture and interior design are moving away from uniform, repetitive layouts towards environments that reflect the variability of human behavior. Contessa II by Boss Design x Okamura.…

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