Housing after Corona : How a building can be designed for working from home

Sammanfattning: In Sweden and around the world, there has been a pandemic during the years 2020 and 2021. People who have been working in offices have, to a large extent, been encouraged to work from their homes and as a result, it has been noticed that working from home has a possibility to continue after thepandemic is over. With this in mind, the question how housing and working conditions should bedeveloped for this to be achievable in the long run is raised. The project has been carried out with the aim of investigating how housing can be designed to enable working from home and be a valid option even after the pandemic. The study has been carried out in four steps: • A literary study of working from home, different types of offices and housing development has been carried out. This was to get a clear picture of what is required of a workplace to be able to get good work result and how homes can be designed so working from home does not disturb the home life. • A survey to find out how working from home has been perceived by people during the pandemic and what would enable them to work from home in the future. • A site analysis, the site that is projected is located in Stockholm and will function as an interaction with the rest of the area. The area that has been chosen is Värtahamnen, which with an already planned block, is the basis for the location and design of the apartment building. • A design phase. Research by design shows what an apartment building adapted for home based work can look like. Three target groups were selected: singles, cohabitants and families The results of the study show that a majority of people are willing to have their working situation as a combination of working from home and going to an office. As the social part of pandemic and working from home has made people feel too isolated, they want to be able to get social interaction during the work week. After collecting information about, different types offices, housing design and Värtahamnens planned conditions, a program for an apartment building has been developed. Four apartments with different living spaces were chosen to show different conditions people have had when working from home. - 30 sqm Singel- 25 sqm Singel- 56 sqm Cohabitant- 83 sqm Family The building was developed with the aim that working from home should be a possible alternative for the residents. The neighborhood and the area should also be able to provide for the needs that theresidents have, within a reasonable distance. As the information from the questionnaire and the literature study can be interpreted differently depending on who is studying it, the way the building and apartments are developed will not be definitive but will work as a proposal from those who conducted the study, this makes the answers to the report one of several possibilities.