For the second year in a row, Business Interiors by Staples and Metropolis Magazine hosted a design competition that invited design visionaries to submit concepts that depict how the workplace will change in the next 10-15 years.

1. Workplace of the Future
For the second year in a row, Business Interiors
by Staples and Metropolis Magazine hosted a
design competition that invited design visionaries
to submit concepts that depict how the workplace
will change in the next 10-15 years.

2. Workplace of the Future
Here’s what it revealed

3. Workplace of the Future
Shift toward adaptable furniture systems: Designed with a no-size-
fits-all approach, these modular, flexible furniture pieces provide
options based on individual and group needs, and can be
implemented in smaller or unfinished spaces.
Creating mobile pods: Aboard different types of transportation, these
portable, all-encompassing modules/designated spaces incorporate
technology and maintain productivity while being on the go.
Inserting infill environments: Leveraging existing architecture, these
systems and spaces can be inserted into current buildings or shared
between companies, enabling improved interaction and collaboration
between workers.
Designing wellness spaces: These garden-like spaces improve
worker productivity and wellbeing through access to physical activity
and nature, providing peaceful work areas and aspects to
stimulate fitness and movement.
Staying connected to technology: These forward-thinking
workplace solutions focus on 3D and augmented reality, offering fully
integrated furniture and devices to disconnect workers from a fixed
workspace and maintain productivity anywhere.

4. Workplace of the Future WINNER:
Organic Grid+
The structure plugs seamlessly into the existing architecture of the modern city. It helps to reduce CO2 emissions in the air and can
be adapted to any sized structure, as well as adjusted to any form suiting large and small companies. Rain water is also harvested
and used for the growth of crops and office needs.
Infill
Environments

5. Workplace of the Future
RUNNER UP: Hybrid Office
The Hybrid Office offers a variety of solo and group spaces for a mid-sized creative office of the future. This design provides an alternative to
the current fixation on open offices, which super-densifies workers providing nowhere to retreat. Hybrid Office creates a healthy balance and
rebalances the workplace by finding a middle ground between open/closed space, individual/collective work, and analog/digital tools.
Adaptable
Furniture

6. Workplace of the Future FINALIST:
Startup Box
Startup Box creates symbiotic relationships or synergies between small startup and tech-centric businesses and educational programs whose
primary goal is to teach the necessary skills (coding, small-business management, small-scale prototype fabrication, etc.) so all members of our
communities have access to the career opportunities that the startup and tech sectors of our economy have created.
Adaptable
Furniture

7. Workplace of the Future FINALIST:
The Cell
The Cell is an individual hour-by-hour workspace designed for public and transition places such as stations, airports, squares, universities,
parks and everywhere the human kind can think to work. It allows the user to work alone, far away from home, or in teams across long
distances connecting more than one cell. It is an urban box workstation, open 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Mobile
Pods

8. Workplace of the Future FINALIST:
Transitworks
Transitworks addresses the opportunity to work in small groups in a mass transit context, which especially attractive for the increasing number
of mobile workers. It provides a place to connect into a remote work network with a colleague, a team, or with professionals who work in
different offices; it would be a place of transition into the official work day.
Mobile
Pods

9. Workplace of the Future FINALIST:
NOVA OCULUS
NOVA OCULUS will eliminate the need for physical aspects of work like desks, chairs, or even paper, as it enables an array of users to reach
the maximum creative capacity. NOVA’s virtual elements will radically improve workplace efficiency, creativity, and connectivity. Users will be
enabled to fully customize and manipulate their virtual interface with upmost fluidity, which will in turn maximize productivity.
Connected
Tech

10. Workplace of the Future FINALIST:
Picnic Meeting
Picnic meeting enables groups of people to meet in an outdoor bar, on the lawn or while having picnics. Enjoy the nice landscape outside and
make a boring meeting more attractive, engaging and productive.
Connected
Tech

11. Workplace of the Future FINALIST:
On the Right Track
The goal of On the Right Track is to increase interaction, creativity, productivity, and well-being by offering a variety of spaces, from private to
collaborative, and a variety of seating and workstation arrangements with an emphasis on nature and movement to meet the changing physical,
mental, and emotional needs of workers throughout the day.
Wellness

12. Workplace of the Future FINALIST:
The Harvesters Project
The Harvesters Project is a company that owns an urban agriculture farm, a packaging area, an online grocery delivery store, and promotional
design installations, all in one rooftop.
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Wellness

13. Workplace of the Future FINALIST:
Transformer
In the 21st-century, wireless, white-collar workers of every profession and in every configuration (from individual heads down work to group
brainstorming) must adapt and transform to a fast-changing, mobile world. Whether accounting firms or tech start-ups, workers benefit from a
creative environment designed to support innovative thinking.
Infill
Environments

14. Workplace of the Future FINALIST:
Sharing, Living Work
Shared workspaces grew significantly over the past few years and are quickly redefining ways we do work. Despite their proliferation, a formal
typology is yet to be established. Sharing, Living Work is a shared workspace program in a corporate-scale building. The corporate and
collaborative models can co-exist and be complementary.
Infill
Environments

15. Workplace of the Future FINALIST:
Flux
Today we lack a complete, engaging system of work that fills the widely varying needs of workers. Instead of you adapting to your environment,
with Flux, your environment adapts to you. With the technologies presented and many more out there even today, this system of work will be
possible to implement in the future. With this concept for the workplace of the future, worker satisfaction and productivity will rise.
Infill
Environments

16. Workplace of the Future
For more information, visit
http://www.metropolismag.com/workplace-of-the-future/