Yesterday when I came to my lab I noticed a great change. Mansoor had re-arranged the semi-hexagonal table modules in a great way. Its practical effectiveness was obvious at the first glance.
Take a look:
It can easily accomodate atleast five persons. With each of them having enough room to for an LCD, a notebook and a writing pad. Moreover most of the team members are close enough to interact with each other without having to shout. This is great particularly for Agile Software Development.
The arrangement has lots of merits. The core reason in my opinion behind its effectiveness remains the use of hexagon. Hexagons have a unique property in polygons that if you tile them on a plane, median of each hexagon will be equidistant from the medians of neighboring hexagons. That is more or less the reason why they are used in cellular networks. I believe same is the reason why this workspace works so well.
Hexagon's inspiration of use in art, design and engineering comes from nature. Take a look at this link.
