--- title: "Workbay" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/vitra/workbay" language: "en" type: "product" description: "Workbay - Designer Work / Phone booths by Vitra ✓ Comprehensive product & design information ✓ Catalogs ➜ Get inspired now" published: "2012-10-25T00:00:00+02:00" modified: "2020-02-18T07:50:05+01:00" image: "https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/v/vitra/produkte/03/3a-composites/produkte/workbay/_1410xAUTO_fit_center-center_90_none/workbay-1.jpg" --- [![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/vitra2018-stylepark.png)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/manufacturer/vitra) # Vitra Workbay Presented: [Orgatec 2012, Cologne](https://www.stylepark.com/en/fair/orgatec-2012-cologne) | Year of design: 2012 | Design: [Erwan Bouroullec](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/erwan-bouroullec), [Ronan Bouroullec](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/ronan-bouroullec) ![Workbay](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/v/vitra/produkte/03/3a-composites/produkte/workbay/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/workbay-1.jpg) [Office / Contract furniture](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/office-contract-furniture) **›** [Break-out / Privacy areas](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/break-out-privacy-areas) **›** [Work / Phone booths](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/work-phone-booths) Workbay breaks with the rigid layout of today’s office environment, introducing a more organic approach to collaborative work – one that is closer to human nature. Life in the office has changed. Today, the prevailing understanding of the nature of people is that we are social and communicative creatures. As a result, in modern offices the level of positive interaction has increased steadily. Now, life and vibrancy have been reintroduced to the office, as interaction takes place at and around the employees’ communal workplaces. Workbay provides easy-to-use semi-private spaces for common areas – the so-called “middle zones” of an open office plan. A system of organically-shaped, cell-like configurations, the single modular elements make possible a wide variety of formations, from single work situations to group spaces and micro-architectural clusters. The system is based on four curved, straight or star-shaped wall elements of two different heights. Constructed to avoid the heaviness of other micro-architectures, Workbay nonetheless offers a protective and durable shell thanks to a sturdy industrial fleece supported by a light-weight aluminium structure. At the same time, Workbay takes into account the downside of today’s buzzing open offices: Workbay cells shut out background noises, thanks to the exceptional sound-absorbing quality of the polyester fleece – a material new to the furniture industry. A friendly, almost homey feeling is provided by the texture of these walls. This atmosphere is further enhanced by a warm range of colours, as well as the selection of different table tops and benches. ![Workbay 5](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/v/vitra/produkte/03/3a-composites/produkte/workbay/_697xAUTO_fit_center-center_none/workbay-5.jpg)![Workbay 3](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/v/vitra/produkte/03/3a-composites/produkte/workbay/_697xAUTO_fit_center-center_none/workbay-3.jpg) ![Workbay 2](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/v/vitra/produkte/03/3a-composites/produkte/workbay/_697xAUTO_fit_center-center_none/workbay-2.jpg)![Workbay 4](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/v/vitra/produkte/03/3a-composites/produkte/workbay/_697xAUTO_fit_center-center_none/workbay-4.jpg) - [Manufacturer's Product-Info](http://www.vitra.com/en-gb/product/workbays) - [Manufacturer's website](http://www.vitra.com) - [All products by Vitra @ Stylepark](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/manufacturer/vitra) - [Vitra @ Stylepark](https://www.stylepark.com/en/manufacturer/vitra) Vitra Related Articles [FAIRS & EVENTS City for All 8/25/2021 From 9 to 11 September 2021, current questions about urban development will be discussed in Frankfurt am Main as part of the new festival "S.O.U.P. – Shaping Our Urban Phuture". An interdisciplinary mediation involving citizens is planned.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/urban-development-soup-frankfurt-urban-society) [INTERVIEWS Three questions to Mateo Kries 2/1/2021 The Vitra Design Museum Gallery will shortly present the exhibition “Memphis. 40 Years of Kitsch and Elegance”. Mateo Kries, Director of the Vitra Design Museum, tells us whether design can still provoke today and what message the extraordinary objects have for us.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/three-questions-for-mateo-kries-memphis) [DESIGN New swing 10/23/2020 With "EVO-C" for Vitra, Jasper Morrison translates the features of the classic tubular steel cantilever chair into polypropylene and gives it a new flexibility.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/vitra-jasper-morrison-evoc-cantilever-chair) [FAIRS & EVENTS New exchange 10/15/2020 COVID-19 and spatial perception: The first digital Vitra Summit addresses the ramifications of the crisis for architecture and design.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/vitra-design-summit-digital-architecture-design-corona) [INTERVIEWS “The steel cable does everything for us.” 4/17/2020 "Citizen" is the name of the new lounge chair that Konstantin Grcic has developed for Vitra. Grcic recounts in conversation with Thomas Edelmann why he finds it so exciting to try out simplicity beyond the pale of customary shapes.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/konstantin-grcic-citizen-vitra) [INTERVIEWS STYLEPARK ZOOM IN with Raphael Gielgen 4/1/2020 Raphael Gielgen is "Future of Work Trendscout" at Vitra. His "Learning Journeys" take him around the world. We asked him in a video interview in his home office whether the Corona crisis will change our working world forever.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/stylepark-zoom-in-raphael-gielgen) [ARCHITECTURE Faster than any science 2/3/2020 On behalf of Vitra Raphael Gielgen is exploring the future of work. In the Pearl River Delta, the world’s biggest boom region, the answers come thick and fast.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/vitra-learning-journey-shenzhen) [FAIRS & EVENTS More than just table football in an office zone 1/28/2020 The Vitra Workspace in Frankfurt hosted a panel discussion that explored all the different sides to the theme of “New Work”: We talked about the future of the workspace – among others with designer Jay Osgerby.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/panel-talk-vitra-workspace-frankfurt) [SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018 The furniture whisperer 4/24/2018 In the exhibition “Typecasting. An Assembly of Iconic, Forgotten and New Vitra Characters,” Robert Stadler lends furniture a voice. Let’s take a listen!](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/furniture-whisperer-salone-del-mobile-vitra-typecasting) [STYLEPARK SELECTED IMM COLOGNE 2018 AT MAKK New paths 1/23/2018 It’s not about everything – it’s about the best: The motto of Stylepark has been translated into an exhibition for the imm cologne 2018.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/stylepark-selected-imm-cologne-makk-new-paths) [DESIGN Simple, but not simplifying 4/4/2017](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/antonio-citterio-vitra-grand-sofa-salon-2017)