TRANSFORMING THE ‘80s: Architectural and programmatic strategies for transformation of ‘80s office buildings into housing
(2021) AAHM10 20211Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Abstract
- The covid pandemic has put light on a trend of office buildings experiencing more vacancy than ever before, given our working habits have been forced to shift from occurring predominantly in an office to mainly being pursued from our private homes. This project foresees a future where working remotely has become the new normal and proposes a residential program in an existing office structure, giving room for an alternative working and living lifestyle.
In that light, the starting point of this project is a research of office buildings from the ‘80s in Stockholm. These buildings experienced vacancy also before the pandemic and as a result, are set to be demolished in several areas to make room for new housing. From a mindset of being... (More) - The covid pandemic has put light on a trend of office buildings experiencing more vacancy than ever before, given our working habits have been forced to shift from occurring predominantly in an office to mainly being pursued from our private homes. This project foresees a future where working remotely has become the new normal and proposes a residential program in an existing office structure, giving room for an alternative working and living lifestyle.
In that light, the starting point of this project is a research of office buildings from the ‘80s in Stockholm. These buildings experienced vacancy also before the pandemic and as a result, are set to be demolished in several areas to make room for new housing. From a mindset of being more open to what buildings we are considering transformable, this thesis is exploring programmatic and architectural strategies to transform rather than demolish office buildings from the ‘80s. Specifically, the project is proposing a hybrid building with housing as core function in an existing office building at Stora Essingen in Stockholm.
By keeping a majority of the facade and the existing building structure in the transformation, a secondary function is proposed where the “home office” moves out from our private apartment into the common areas of the building, taking advantage of the deep building core. The architectural interventions of the building are focused towards changing the qualities of the common “home office” and allows for punctual architectural interventions, letting the apartments make use of the existing windows and facade.
Through this, the project visualizes a future where demolition is avoided and dwellings have to occur in transformed buildings. The architecture and the program has to adapt to the existing structure and in this proposal having a future of a remote working lifestyle in mind. (Less)
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- author
- Skevik, Therese LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- AAHM10 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- language
- English
- id
- 9068655
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abstract = {{The covid pandemic has put light on a trend of office buildings experiencing more vacancy than ever before, given our working habits have been forced to shift from occurring predominantly in an office to mainly being pursued from our private homes. This project foresees a future where working remotely has become the new normal and proposes a residential program in an existing office structure, giving room for an alternative working and living lifestyle.
In that light, the starting point of this project is a research of office buildings from the ‘80s in Stockholm. These buildings experienced vacancy also before the pandemic and as a result, are set to be demolished in several areas to make room for new housing. From a mindset of being more open to what buildings we are considering transformable, this thesis is exploring programmatic and architectural strategies to transform rather than demolish office buildings from the ‘80s. Specifically, the project is proposing a hybrid building with housing as core function in an existing office building at Stora Essingen in Stockholm.
By keeping a majority of the facade and the existing building structure in the transformation, a secondary function is proposed where the “home office” moves out from our private apartment into the common areas of the building, taking advantage of the deep building core. The architectural interventions of the building are focused towards changing the qualities of the common “home office” and allows for punctual architectural interventions, letting the apartments make use of the existing windows and facade.
Through this, the project visualizes a future where demolition is avoided and dwellings have to occur in transformed buildings. The architecture and the program has to adapt to the existing structure and in this proposal having a future of a remote working lifestyle in mind.}},
author = {{Skevik, Therese}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{TRANSFORMING THE ‘80s: Architectural and programmatic strategies for transformation of ‘80s office buildings into housing}},
year = {{2021}},
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