Kawoke

Context & Problem

Co-working spaces are environments for individuals or businesses to come together and work. Because they provide a short term commitment ideal for collaboration, they have been prevailing in the professional world and academic programs encouraging collaborative work (such as Architecture, Urbanism and Industrial Design).

Users of co-working spaces desire:

• partial, convenient, temporary and adjustable isolation, while conducting tasks individually or in small groups, to facilitate focusing, through the reduction of visual stimuli to a desired degree, while maintaining their physical comfort (even after long working sessions)

• more flexibility for opting in & out of networking

• a way to mitigate the fear of missing out, experienced when they cannot su ciently perceive their surroundings (visually or aurally)

Owners of co-working spaces tend to prefer funiture pieces allowing the switch up of their interior design from time to time, without depriving their members of a sense of familiarity with the space.

Solution

Kawoke is a room divider constituted of 6 panels rotating around a center rod, leading the base form to expand and create a larger shape.

These panels serve as frames to translucent fabric. Therefore the user gains controls on the level of visual obstruction by completing 1 or 2 revolutions with the panels.

Kawoke’s organic shapes within a broader rectilinear shape, aim to help the design fit in co-working spaces with strict and relaxed interior designs.