Playns
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, 2008
Playns is a workstation system that features desks which can be individually adjusted to the required height. It gives users a certain degree of privacy, and yet at the same time facilitates communication within a team, i.e. raised desks are ideal for holding meetings. This means that Playns enables netting and nesting, as it creates an ideal setting for both communication and concentration without users having to leave the workstation. It has also been proven healthy to vary between sitting and standing, as this helps to prevent back problems and tension, while it also promotes blood flow, circulation and thus increases both activity and motivation levels.
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Expandable desk system
Playns has been designed as a system, and this means that individual workstations are not simply pushed together. Instead, table clusters (with just four legs) can be created, and two desks can be joined together to form the basis for larger systems.
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Clever electrical connections
Power from the floor is supplied by as few points as necessary, and is fed horizontally via the installation unit before vertically branching off to each workstation. The desktops can be lifted up and pulled for- ward, which allows access to the technology channel. This is a simple way of supplying every workstation with power and data cables, all of which remain hidden even when the desks are in a raised position.
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Team workstations with private space
The Playns system has been developed taking both the communicative needs of a team and an individual’s need for privacy into account: Screens made of metal or fabric in two different heights surround every workstation and facilitate concentration. The workstations can be individually equipped with storage boxes, monitor holders, desk lamp adapters, CPU boxes, personal boxes and desk pads.
