Designer’s office in Malaysia: comparative analysis on space planning and design issues

A person's work environment is very important. We spend nearly as much time at work as we do at home and even for some office workers, they spend more at their office than home. Improper office environments can cause major stress for workers. Understanding office design and environment issues c...

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Main Authors:	Awang, Arita Hanim, Denan, Zuraini
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	NA Architecture
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/45068/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/45068/4/45068.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/45068/2/Cert_ICHHS_2015.pdf

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spelling	iium-450682015-11-10T09:33:34Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/45068/ Designer’s office in Malaysia: comparative analysis on space planning and design issues Awang, Arita Hanim Denan, Zuraini NA Architecture A person's work environment is very important. We spend nearly as much time at work as we do at home and even for some office workers, they spend more at their office than home. Improper office environments can cause major stress for workers. Understanding office design and environment issues can help give insight on improving the atmosphere at work. Interior designer’s office is the chosen typology for this research. Their offices should be the best examples in office design as they are the one who will be given a task to design their client’s offices. Hence, more space requirements for their offices also gives challenge in understanding the real issues of workspace design. The objective of this research is to investigate the conditions and problems of existing designer’s office in Kuala Lumpur within the scope of spatial arrangement, furniture and equipment provision. This research also attempts to get the user perception towards their existing workspace. For this purpose, a case study method is adopted. An observation of three selected designer’s offices are conducted by doing a site measurement, site observation and questionnaire survey method to gather data on the user perception towards their existing workspace. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45068/4/45068.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45068/2/Cert_ICHHS_2015.pdf Awang, Arita Hanim and Denan, Zuraini (2015) Designer’s office in Malaysia: comparative analysis on space planning and design issues. In: 2015 4th International Conference on Humanity, History and Society, 8th-9th March 2015, Seoul, Korea. (Unpublished)
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spellingShingle	NA Architecture Awang, Arita Hanim Denan, Zuraini Designer’s office in Malaysia: comparative analysis on space planning and design issues
description	A person's work environment is very important. We spend nearly as much time at work as we do at home and even for some office workers, they spend more at their office than home. Improper office environments can cause major stress for workers. Understanding office design and environment issues can help give insight on improving the atmosphere at work. Interior designer’s office is the chosen typology for this research. Their offices should be the best examples in office design as they are the one who will be given a task to design their client’s offices. Hence, more space requirements for their offices also gives challenge in understanding the real issues of workspace design. The objective of this research is to investigate the conditions and problems of existing designer’s office in Kuala Lumpur within the scope of spatial arrangement, furniture and equipment provision. This research also attempts to get the user perception towards their existing workspace. For this purpose, a case study method is adopted. An observation of three selected designer’s offices are conducted by doing a site measurement, site observation and questionnaire survey method to gather data on the user perception towards their existing workspace.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Awang, Arita Hanim Denan, Zuraini
author_facet	Awang, Arita Hanim Denan, Zuraini
author_sort	Awang, Arita Hanim
title	Designer’s office in Malaysia: comparative analysis on space planning and design issues
title_short	Designer’s office in Malaysia: comparative analysis on space planning and design issues
title_full	Designer’s office in Malaysia: comparative analysis on space planning and design issues
title_fullStr	Designer’s office in Malaysia: comparative analysis on space planning and design issues
title_full_unstemmed	Designer’s office in Malaysia: comparative analysis on space planning and design issues
title_sort	designer’s office in malaysia: comparative analysis on space planning and design issues
publishDate	2015
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/45068/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/45068/4/45068.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/45068/2/Cert_ICHHS_2015.pdf
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Designer’s office in Malaysia: comparative analysis on space planning and design issues

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