Growing numbers of us work not only from home, but from anywhere; job flexibility has become a key requirement for employers and workers alike. This, in turn, has created new challenges for architects and designers, many of whom themselves start out working from home. They are tackling demand head on with innovative solutions that allow clients to transform their spaces to suit a wide range of needs, from multifunctional studios to homes that seamlessly combine work and family life. Divided into five thematic sections, this book explores the exciting variety of ways that the workplace can be integrated into the domestic environment. From stand-alone multifunctional furniture to mobile room dividers and dynamic solutions that fold out or pop up to create new work areas, each design addresses the unique needs of the space, client and working practices for which it was required, and tackles new questions about the rapidly evolving relationship between work and domestic life in the 21st century. This essential and timely resource for homeworkers and practitioners offers fresh ideas for how to strike the perfect balance between living and working at home.

Features:

• Presents over 100 innovative and ingenious projects from around the world devised by a broad spectrum of architects and designers, created to meet the diverse and growing demand from those who work from home.
• 500 full-colour photographs and plans show how each design solution responds to the unique challenges of the client’s working practices and home environment.
• Packed with fresh ideas on how to strike the perfect balance between living and working at home.

Contents: 

Introduction • Mobile/Static • Horizontal/Vertical • Fold-outs/Partitions • Pockets/Pop-ups
Integrated/Detached • Project Credits • Index of Designers

Author:

Anna Yudina is co-founder and editor-in-chief of MONITOR magazine. She has curated design exhibitions on Zaha Hadid and Jakob + MacFarlane and has authored several books on architecture, including Furnitecture and Lumitecture for Thames & Hudson. She lives in Paris.