2. Classroom furniture KI Intellect Classroom Furniture Ask people about their experiencein school, and you'll get a variety of 經驗 reactions: Some will waxnostalgic, while others will 懷舊的 shudder with dread. But there's one memory that 因害怕而發抖 everyone will share: the discomfort of the Classroom Furniture they encountered. 遭遇
3. Classroom furniture The KI Intellect line of classroom furniture works to eliminatethat 排除 experiencefor today's students. 經驗 By increasing the ergonomic 人體工學 performance of classroomfurniture, 性能 KI hopes to reduce the “fidgetfactor" 降低 坐立不安的因素 and increase students' ability to learn.
4. Classroom furniture While ergonomics were a key goal of this line, 人體工學 關鍵目標 functionality wasequally important - the furniture had 功能 相同的 to be strong enough to withstandthe roughusage it 禁得起 劇烈的 使用 was bound to receive while lightweightenough to be 標準重量以下的人 moved easily, even by children. Because it wasintendedfor the preschool through adult school market, it had to 就學前的 be flexible enough to work for a widevariety of body 有彈性的 廣泛的 種類 sizes andtypes. It had to be nestable and stackable; it (n. nest 舒適之處) also had to beadaptableto today‘s high-tech classroom, 適合的 with accommodationsmade for keyboards,mousepads, and wires. And visually, becauseclassroom furniture isn’t 外表上 replaced very often, “it had to besimple and clean and kind of timeless,” says Scott Bosman, anindustrial 不受時間影響的 designer at KI.
5. Classroom furniture Initial sketches included a wide array of 最初的 裝飾 ideas for chair and legconfigurations. 表面配置 Making the seat and back out of one large pieceof plastic turned out to be less cost- 打扮好的 effective than separatingthetwo parts. 區分 Bendingthe legs so they crossed under the 彎曲 seat andscrewingthe shell directly onto (用螺釘等)固定 theframeproved weaker as wellas less 架構 distinctivethan other solutions. 有特色的 解決(辦法)
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7. Asked by marketing to develop a removable book box (here termed a 開發 "personal bin") for the desk, the design team took the idea further by designing a centralized bin storage solution meant to keep the bins organized. 使集中於中央 形成有機體 While the final desk design includes these options, the lap desk concept 概念 shown here was not implemented because marketing decided the lid was 履行 not necessary.
8. The final version of the chair can stackup to six high-one of (把...)堆起 theoriginalrequirementsset out for the design team. 規定
