The Office Jungle

Sailing boats, the international space station and chimpanzee sanctuaries are very different kinds of environments, but insofar as they are human-made environments they are all exceptionally “wild”. Wildness is something we normally don’t associate with the human-made, but The Office Jungle poses that wildness can be designed. The suspended geodesic structures of The Office Jungle are wild in the sense that they are not rigid, but move organically and somewhat unpredictably. Moreover, its design doesn’t prioritise one way of using it but rather offers a playful array of interaction possibilities. The Office Jungle can be climbed and trampolined on, but it can also be used to relax and work in. At present The Office Jungle is still only pocket-sized compared to the future environments it envisions; a tiny tool-kit to make your office (or any other indoors) a little wilder. Its ultimate goal would be to make desks and chairs, and even the floors supporting them, redundant, replacing them with space-traversing structures that hover above small indoor forests. Indeed, the question The Office Jungle is trying to answer is not "how to live in an office?", but "how to work in a jungle?"