What is it?
A MOBILE DESIGN STUDIO

What makes this design different or better?
THE CHANGING WORK ENVIRONMENT

It is a reality of the changing work / studio environment that we are working in larger, shared, non-hierachical spaces. For the sake of efficiency many feel the loss of their autonomy, and power over their own actions. By using technology to create a sense of ownership and territory, we can empower the individual, while maintaining a free and fluid work / studio environment.

The Design Pod and its peripheral studio solution provides a response to this condition.

THE DESIGN POD

As the environment that we work and interact within becomes increasingly synthetic, there becomes greater need for an immediate work environment that is increasingly maluable, tactile, personal and real.

The Design Pod offers the individual the opportunity to control their work environment and further more give them the opportunity to manipulate and move their work station into any environment desired. In the case of the architect, engineer, landscape designer or any profession that requires careful consideration of site, environment and local conditions the Design Pod provides the perfect opportunity for on-site design and documentation and also correspondence to home office, consultants or the client.

THE DESIGN DESKTOP

Providing the full spectrum of multi-media output the Design Desktop gives the individual control over the everyday tools of the design studio such as communication and basic computing needs. More importantly though, the Design Desktop provides the user with the ability to bridge the gap between 1)virtual drawing and design technologies and 2)the designers mind. It does this by removing the Mouse from the equation.

The Mouse places an extra element between the mind of the designer, the free formed sketch and the documents produced in the digital CAD environment. Many designers feel that when working within the virtual environment they subconsciously become more involved with the production of digital documents and subsequently they became distracted from the essential nature of their design, that being the tectonic quality of their built idea.

The Design Desktop overcomes this problem by encouraging the use of pen and paper in conjunction with the touch sensitive digital screen / digital light table and the hybrid drawing arm.

THE DESIGN Co-Op

The Design Co-Op is an open studio established by the users for the use of like minded people such as artists and designers to pool their resources and produce an environment of shared space, media and ideas.