Habitactory: Working and Living

[igg – office for architecture], Essay, High Density, New Investigations in Collective Form, Territory and mobility, The Open Workshop, Urban Paradigms

Affordable Housing, Architecture’s challenge, Cities, Co-living, Contemporary society, Coworking, Essay, Flexibility, Future cities, Germany, Hamburg, Housing, Hybridization, Inclusive city, Infrastructure, Interaction, Mixed use, Multifunctional building, New economies, New paradigms, New urban lifestyles, Production, Productive design, Project, Residential, Resources, Scales, Social environment, Timber, urban, Urban Paradigms, work, Working Space

Excerpt from "New Investigations in Collective Form" published by Actar Publishers -- https://lccn.loc.gov/2019930792

Nowadays, the difference between work and home is increasingly blurred. Not only are more people working from home—with a range of tools from computers to 3D printers—, work environments are increasingly taking their aesthetic cues from domestic environments. While this blurring has transpired within particular types of work, larger scaled environments of production have typically been separated from domestic environments due to their specific needs and differential scale.