Idea Starters

Our idea starters library is curated to support your space planning efforts. Each typical is crafted by Allsteel's Workplace Insights & Applications team, bringing the latest products, strategies, and trends to life. Each typical is available for download and use in Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, and CET Designer.

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Solo Spaces

Solo spaces give the individual user control over how they work. To determine which applications and attributes are most appropriate, a variety of considerations should be reviewed including the range of activities and nature of tasks, the level of visual and acoustical privacy, and power accessibility.

Private Office

Private offices may be assigned, shared by more than one person, or free-address. The layout may also be designed to double as a small meeting room that accommodates 2-3 workers.

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Workstation

A personal space to call ‘home’ or to temporarily make use of when in the office – workstations are designed to support individual work processes.

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Touchdown

Also referred to as hotdesking, a touchdown space is an unassigned work setting. Touchdown settings can be found in a variety of postures, supported by different levels of technology and privacy, depending on user needs.

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Focus Room

These alternative spaces give users other options to work alone - with less visual or auditory stimulation - and provide some measure of privacy. These spaces may be adjacent to primary work areas to enable a user to quickly relocate from their desk to take a personal call, or further away to discourage interruptions.

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Team Spaces

Team spaces have become increasingly important to get right, given that work has become much more interdependent and collaborative. It’s critical to uncover a team’s most important group work activities—from intense to causal, tech-rich to conversation-heavy, ad-hoc to planned, and brief to project-long—to appropriately plan and provision the right mix of settings.

Lounge

Nearby soft seating promotes comfortable conversations that help build connections and encourage sharing of important insights or project challenges.

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Huddle

Collaboration can’t always be planned. A variety of purposefully placed settings support quick, impromptu meetings.

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Project Room

Dedicated team spaces, like project rooms, not only house work-in-progress and enable effective information sharing, but also promote team identity.

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Work Island

Not only a practical and functional place to store and secure personal belongings, these islands perform double-duty as a central gathering place for teams to start their day, have impromptu discussions, or collaborate in a standing posture.

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Meeting Room

Function, furniture, posture, lighting and acoustics, balanced with sight lines and preferred technology solutions, make these meeting spaces work harder for users both in the physical meeting space, as well as for those joining remotely.

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Community Spaces

Community spaces are intended for use by the entire workforce (and their guests). Spaces that are hubs of activities need to accomplish many things, making adaptation important. Settings range from Cafés to Libraries to open social spaces like Lobbies and Reception. Community spaces support meetings and learning, employee wellness, and socialization.

Café

It’s not just about the food. Cafés are serving as destination areas that double as all-day meeting spaces.

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Conferencing

These larger capacity rooms must serve a multitude of purposes, from formal client presentations or board meetings to casual brainstorming and team meetings, but are, by virtue of their size and capacity, usually scheduled and centrally located.

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