Home-office: the ongoing and future paradigms for hybrid and flexible live-work spaces
Session
Architecture and Spatial Planning
Description
Remote work or working at home and from home has become an entrenched practice in the last two years, changing our habits so much that some people do not want to return to offices. Yet, working from home has challenged the way our homes and apartments are designed to allow adequate flexibility in order to maintain the balance as both living and working environments. Working from home disconnects you physically from your colleagues or daily collaborators, maybe making you feel unnecessary and uncreative. The debate and discourse this paper tend to contribute is identifying what challenges faced working from home and even studying from home in our daily home environments, and exploring the best modalities for working remotely and telework in the format of hybrid and flexible arrangements, I and We work, which will require to re-imagine both home and office in terms of space planning. By exploring historical precedents and paradigms, the digital cultures and environments, as well as extensive feedback from more than two years of the covid-19 pandemics in Kosovo, this paper will be finally focused on providing concrete guidelines and examples of how our homes and retreats can be hybridized as home-offices, and how apartments can be designed to be both affordable and flexible as future-oriented environments for a better quality of life.
Keywords:
remote work, home-office, space planning, hybrid, flexible
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-50-5
Location
UBT Kampus, Lipjan
Start Date
29-10-2022 12:00 AM
End Date
30-10-2022 12:00 AM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic/2022.367
Recommended Citation
Shyqeriu, Banush and Zllanoga, Floriana, "Home-office: the ongoing and future paradigms for hybrid and flexible live-work spaces" (2022). UBT International Conference. 377.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2022/all-events/377
Home-office: the ongoing and future paradigms for hybrid and flexible live-work spaces
UBT Kampus, Lipjan
Remote work or working at home and from home has become an entrenched practice in the last two years, changing our habits so much that some people do not want to return to offices. Yet, working from home has challenged the way our homes and apartments are designed to allow adequate flexibility in order to maintain the balance as both living and working environments. Working from home disconnects you physically from your colleagues or daily collaborators, maybe making you feel unnecessary and uncreative. The debate and discourse this paper tend to contribute is identifying what challenges faced working from home and even studying from home in our daily home environments, and exploring the best modalities for working remotely and telework in the format of hybrid and flexible arrangements, I and We work, which will require to re-imagine both home and office in terms of space planning. By exploring historical precedents and paradigms, the digital cultures and environments, as well as extensive feedback from more than two years of the covid-19 pandemics in Kosovo, this paper will be finally focused on providing concrete guidelines and examples of how our homes and retreats can be hybridized as home-offices, and how apartments can be designed to be both affordable and flexible as future-oriented environments for a better quality of life.