35.9754° N, 83.9244° W | Interior Architecture Studio | Prof. Cheryl Baxter
Viable Vessels aims to support and solve the workplace issues that evolved from the pandemic of COVID-19, while also providing a viable office solution for the future. Viable Vessels solves these issues by having a maker space where guests can come and design / build their own prototype office to be fabricated out of shipping containers that are no longer in use. Using shipping containers as the structural frame work for these offices is a sustainable design decision and provides a way for anyone to have any office of their making to be shipping wherever they work best. These vessels are designed and fabricated at the main site in Knoxville. Viable Vessels uses a team of designers to design a kit of parts that are able to slide right into the structural framework of the shipping containers. Based on the choices of the client the shipping container can be manipulated to add windows, doors and niches.
Journey Mapping
The Maker Space
The Maker Space is designed to guide the clients on a certain pathway toward creating their own office space. While making decisions about their new office, guests are able to occupy vessels that have already been fabricated and they are able to view different aspects of the fabrication process, whether through 3D printing of furniture or manipulation of the shipping containers. After all decisions have been made the guests meet with designers in their own vessel to finalize the prototype's design. From there the fabrication process begins and the vessel(s) are shipped to the users designated work place for installment.
Section Perspective
Plans
Perspectives
Perspectives
Vessel Design Experimentation
