Enhancing collaboration through adaptable workspaces with an adaptive hybrid office system whose workstation cluster converges into a shared meeting environment.
Opus is a modular workstation cluster for hybrid office workers who move between focused individual tasks and collaborative team sessions without leaving their shared workspace.
The move that shaped the system is a counter-weighted partition. Raised, it gives each user visual separation and a surface for personal organisation; lowered, it opens the shared table into a complete meeting surface. The transition happens in place, so a team shifts between focus and discussion without relocating.
Early sketches exploring how individual workspaces could come together into flexible clusters, moving partitions and integrated accessory surfaces.
Early exploration of clustered workstations for small and medium teams.
Developing a scalable and flexible workstation configuration with adjustable partitions.
Exploring how individual partitions move along the shared workstation.
Studies of the slatted surface and integrated accessory system.
A point-of-view sketch used to understand how the partition, slats and accessories are actually seen and reached from a seated position.
Research into office attendance and meeting patterns established the scale and flexibility the system needed. These findings were then translated into higher-fidelity concept sketches, refining the moving partition, shared rail, accessory system and overall workstation proportions.
Office attendance shifts across the week, leaving fixed single-use workstations underutilised — while nearly 86% of meetings involve three people or fewer. Small group work was being pushed into rooms sized for far more.
Bringing the moving partition, shared rail and personal organisation system together while checking reach, movement and seated use.
Refining the partition dimensions and defining how movable accessories attach to and organise the individual workspace.
Developing the connection between the slotted partition and removable personal accessories.
Plan and elevation studies used to resolve the shared rail, table dimensions and workstation arrangement.
Opus combines the functions of an individual workstation and a shared meeting space within the same system. Moving partitions, integrated power and modular accessories allow each workspace to adapt around different modes of work.
Lowering the partitions clears the centre of the workstation, allowing the cluster to transition into a shared meeting table without requiring the team to relocate.
The felt partition provides visual separation during focused work while its slotted surface carries movable tools and personal accessories.
A shared outlet at the centre of the cluster keeps power accessible from both sides while concentrating cables within the workstation infrastructure.
Counterweights integrated into the supporting structure balance each partition, allowing it to be raised or lowered manually with minimal effort.
The same workstation logic extends from 2 to 6 people, allowing clusters to grow while retaining the shared structure, partition and power infrastructure.
A modular set of accessories turns the partition into a configurable organisation surface, including a whiteboard, file holder, planter, pencil cup, clip and storage container.
