Beyond Live/Work

The Architecture of Home-based Work

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ID19934233
AuthorsFrances Holliss (London Metropolitan University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Publication date2015-02-11
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBeyond Live/Work (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315738048
OpenAlexW4255786929
Open LibraryOL40001351M
ISBN9781315738048
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Beyond Live/Work: the architecture of home-based work explores the old but neglected building type that combines dwelling and workplace, the ‘workhome’. It traces a previously untold architectural history illustrated by images of largely forgotten buildings. Despite having existed for hundreds, if not thousands, of years in every country across the globe this dual-use building type has long gone unnoticed. This book analyses the lives and premises of 90 contemporary UK and US home-based workers from across the social spectrum and in diverse occupations. It generates a series of typologies and design considerations for the workhome that will be useful for design professionals, students, policy-makers and home-based workers themselves. In the context of a globalising economy, more women in work than ever before and enabling new technologies, the home-based workforce is growing rapidly. Demonstrating how this can be a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable working practice, this book presents the workhome as the house of the future

Work (physics) · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Architecture · Architecture, designs and plans · Architecture, Domestic · Buildings · Design & Construction · Domestic space · Espace domestique · Facteurs humains · History · House & Home · Human factors · Immeubles à usages multiples · Interior decoration · Joint occupancy of buildings · Multipurpose buildings · Residential · Work environment

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