The New Concept of Home Office Structures, as a Part of Contemporary Multi-Family Housing Design at the Time of Pandemic. Case Study of City of Poznan, Poland
[ 1 ] Instytut Architektury, Urbanistyki i Ochrony Dziedzictwa, Wydział Architektury, Politechnika Poznańska | [ SzD ] doctoral school student | [ P ] employee
2022
chapter in monograph
english
- social distance
- home office
- multi-family housing
- semi-public spaces
EN On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 is a new type of virus that has spread around the world in a noticeably short time. As the virus spread increasingly fast, the gradual closure of commercial and service facilities began, and enterprises, offices and schools switched to remote work. Home office, which was introduced, turned out to be in some or even most cases difficult to implement in many countries, including Poland. In many cases, living spaces in multi-family buildings turned out to be insufficient for running a businesses or learning. As part of the research, the authors would like to focus on the search and redefinition of the concept of common parts in the existing and planned residential development investments. The creation of new workplaces, a kind of cooperation between a collective of residents and architects would undoubtedly be a valuable change. As research material, this article will present one existing investment. The authors will show the possibilities of transforming individual parts of a building into places where it will be possible to safely work remotely. In the article there will also be shown a system in the building controlled by mobile applications (opening, closing the door, operating the elevator etc.) All transformations proposed on the basis of detailed studies will have a positive impact not only on the attractiveness of given development investments, but above all, on increasing health safety and efficiency of people who work remotely. Bearing in mind the economic issues of investments, an attempt was also made to diagnose the costs of the proposed transformations. These activities will also be aimed at drawing attention to the fact that, with the assumed activities, the costs of their implementation will not be as high as one might suppose.
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