Framery Smart Pod Family

Framery Smart Pod Family — IADA 2024 award

Framery Smart Pod Family received Platinum Winner recognition at the International Architecture & Design Awards 2024 in Workplace and Office Design. Project status, design team and credits are listed alongside the presentation.

About the project

Smart Pods improve offices, and the lives of working people, everywhere. We’ve made it our mission to empower and enable workers to achieve their best. The shifting landscape of working life, due to the pandemic, gave us an opportunity to reevaluate the way we think about and design our products – and how we can use technology to improve the way offices and people work.

New generation of smart pods provide private, fully-connected, comfortable spaces for focused work and video calls. The family of four pods are designed for both individuals and teams: Framery One Compact is a smart and soundproof one-person phone booth, while Framery Four and Framery Six meeting pods are smart, collaborative spaces for teams engineered for in-person and hybrid meetings.

Our smart pods feature sophisticated technology, such as precision sensors, mmWave radar, and adaptive ventilation technology, that improve capabilities across the entire range of pods and the offices they inhabit. They can sense and respond to environmental conditions, provide behavioral data for optimizing office layouts, and receive over-the-air software upgrades to integrate new features into the future.

For the first time in history, facilities managers are now able to adjust their space using data and analytics - removing the guesswork in office design. Through Framery Connect, our smart pods provide detailed analytics about how they are used. The pods produce real-time, anonymous usage data through an integrated 4G connection. Together with the palm-sized Framery Connect sensor, which expands this capability to provide insights from any space in the office, we are able to provide an overview of the space usage across an entire organization.

Our new workplace technology suite is a collection of physical and digital services that enhance the capabilities of our smart pods, and improve the entire workplace experience.The Framery App makes every pod and space easy to find and book. And the Framery Office Sound Masking System reduces speech intelligibility and noise distractions outside of the pods. Combined with Framery Connect and the Framery Connect Sensor, these new tools have the power to further enhance focus and improve privacy throughout the office.

We believe offices should adjust to people, not the other way around. Filled with private spaces engineered for any type of work, and environments that adapt to the needs and preferences of any user. With every space connected to the cloud, and every person connected to each other. Accomplishing this vision not only meant developing new pods – it meant developing new technologies to the pods. But integrating technology only works if it improves life for the people who use it. Our new line of smart pods have been designed to make every part of the workday easier — from effortlessly locating and reserving pods to maximizing productivity throughout the day.