Around a table, then a classroom
Edgeware's first industry solution, Parti, has quieter uses planned for the same room.
In the third drawing the counter is gone. A long table stands in the middle of the floor with chairs around it, and four people are around it. This is the use for receiving business guests or holding a team day: one table, people sitting round it, no counter in between.
The fourth drawing is a training course. The long table has become four desks, staggered across the floor. A board hangs on the wall to the left, and one person stands in front of it while the others are at the desks. The door is where it was, and so is the big panel on the right-hand wall. The grid on the floor is the same grid.
Between the two uses, what moves is the tables, the chairs and the board.
A reception and a class ask different things of the same floor. In a reception people face each other. In a class they face one person at the front. The room has to allow both without anyone rebuilding it, and that is the question this pair of drawings puts to the design.
The people in the drawings are plain outlines on purpose. They stand for anyone, and for nobody in particular.
None of this has happened yet. These are uses we are designing for, and we would rather say so plainly than let a tidy drawing do the talking.
That is a goal, and we treat it as one.