Makers Mix Workhome

A return of dwelling and fabrication within the city

Master thesis (2021)

Authors

J.P. Connerney Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

F. Adema Building Product Innovation - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
T.W. Kupers Teachers of Practice / A - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
P.S. van der Putt Public Building and Housing Design (mentor)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

28-06-2021

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

Over the previous two decades people all over the world have been increasingly working from home or living at their workplace with the global North especially seeing a resurgence in this form of living. With the restrictions imposed on travel and social distancing at work brought about by the current COVID-19 pandemic ,however,this trend has been drastically accelerated, and in doing so has highlighted failings with the quality and availability of workspaces within the current housing stock. Based on this growing need and the predicted future demands it’s time to re-examine our relationship with working and living in monofunctioning determinate dwellings.

Therefore in this forthcoming research project I aim to explore
what Frances Hollis states to be a ‘workhome’ (Holliss, 2015, p2), a building that combines both dwelling and working, focusing on examining this architypes spatial strategy in addressing current problems facing a work force increasingly working from their home. This report will thus advocate a return of this typology to the building stock in the Netherlands, highlighting its historical relevance and the benefits a buildingof this nature can bring in its duality.