I designed and fabricated my own workstation.

I believe a productive work space requires a comfortable environment.

My design has an emphasis on organisation and clarity. It is purposefully minimalistic, the rails for the bookshelf’s sliding glass doors are recessed into the timber and the storage grids are all modular to minimise unnecessary distraction.

The workstation contains a built-in light which is hidden beneath a shelf support. This is reinforced with hidden metal plates to eliminate the need for additional vertical support for the bookshelf above.

The desk is designed with a glass top not only to resist cuts and scratches during architectural modelling work, but also to allow drawings and ideas to be stored and viewed in the display drawers underneath. I made the drawer slides from aluminium T-section extrusions. These slot into grooves routed into the drawers to minimise their thickness and maximise the functionality of the limited space between the knees and elbows when someone is seated at the desk.

I placed an emphasis on minimising the number of table legs required by integrating one side of the table with a printer cabinet. This custom design printer cabinet has a built-in railing across which the desk can be slid. This allows the orientation of the desk to be reversed so that the entire unit can be inversed and placed in any corner of a room.

The workstation is made almost entirely of MDF. In order to reduce the weight, larger panels were assembled using three layers; two 3mm layers on the outside, and a thicker 12mm layer in the middle which is hollowed in a hexagonal beehive structure. This reduces the weight of the workstation while also maximising the strength of the larger panels.