Lighting Focus: Preventing Valuable Objects from Fading
Light can damage paintings, books, and other treasured items, but using the right sort of lighting can minimize this destruction.
Light can damage paintings, books, and other treasured items, but using the right sort of lighting can minimize this destruction.
Increasing numbers of individuals with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are working in offices, and they have specific workplace needs.
Humans feel more satisfied when closer to a window.
When people are emotionally ambivalent, or simultaneously experiencing positive and negative emotions, creative thinking might be enhanced.
Research has uncovered several ways that physical environments can encourage people to climb stairs.
With care, electrochromic (EC) windows can be used to enhance the quality of the work environment.
Analyzing the spatial layout, or the floorplate, of work environments is starting to produce information useful for practitioners.
How do the light and color present in the workplace influences the mood of the people in those spaces? Researchers studied people at various latitudes throughout the world in real work environments to investigate these relationships.
In 2005, we conducted privacy studies for office workers at a large Midwestern manufacturer to determine what architectural privacy features impacted individual and group privacy across several job types. In the process, we learned several interesting things that designers can apply immediately to enhance perceived privacy in the workplace.
Personal control over the physical workspace led to higher perceived group cohesiveness and job satisfaction.