Plans reproduced in all sections are at the same scale
to enable direct comparison.

Using this Site

Navigate your way around this site using the menu system above. Each section is colour-coded in outline: the filled box indicates your current location (eg. we are now in "New National Office", filled magenta above) while the main coloured heading (top) represents the subsection title. These coloured boxes show the section titles, and moving your mouse over each of these boxes reveals a drop-down menu displaying the subsections. Just click on the subsection of your choice.

Below the menu boxes (and above this block of text) is the navigation line which tells you exactly where you are at any one time . Most pages within a subsection have follow-on links at the bottom of the page so you can read through the site in a linear fashion. You may also use the menus to jump around the site and quickly find the information you need.

Words highlighted in brown throughout the site link directly to a definition in the Glossary (found in the Appendix section). Once you've read a definition in the Glossary, just click "Back" in your main browser window to go back to your last visited page.

Below are short summaries of each main section in this site.

Explanation of Sections:

02: History of the office
A short history of the development of the office explained in terms
of the economic and social context of the last 100 years. Plans are reproduced with typical furniture layouts and internal views.

03: Working Environments
A more detailed description of a particular working environment with plans and internal views.

04: Arts Council Brief
A graphic presentation of the components of the programme for the new offices arranged in three ways:

-- Programme by department
-- Programme by function
-- Programme mixed

05: Office Paradigms
Organisational ideas or metaphors for arranging the Arts Council offices brief. each one consists of:

-- An image with a description of the idea
-- A plan arranging the programme according to this idea
-- A more detailed axonometric view
-- Two internal views

06: Art and the Workplace
A description of how art can be integrated into the workplace with specific examples as the project develops

07: Furniture
A collection or pool of furniture to be drawn on
for furnishing the new offices

08: Site
Details of the new location of the arts council offices

09: Appendix
Bibiliography, glossary, links, contact details of the relocation team and details of the design team