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Item Restricted Adaptive interior design strategies for constantly changing living conditions(2018) Faghihi, Gila Modjtahed Zadeh; Larsen, Sigurd; Pöğün-Zander, Yüksel; Faculty of Architecture and Design; Berlin International University of Applied Sciences"Germany currently finds itself in the midst of a housing crisis, in particular because the property market has mainly been defined by profit-driven development. There is a lack of adequate and affordable living space, especially for those in the creative scene. Artists, musicians, small-scale entrepreneurs, and urban creatives who themselves create "the urban" they inhabit find themselves priced-out of the city and are forced to cope with the increasing issue of increased housing costs and low housing stock. This Bachelor thesis examines the recent development of adaptive forms of housing provision in response to such a crisis, thereby investigating past and existing alternative living/housing principles in the form of cooperatively organized housing projects. This research indicates the emergence of a new mode of future-oriented living as well as a process of hybridization that leads in the direction of new modes of dwelling in urban spaces. Reviewing the existing literature on the topic as well as surveys of long-term development in the realm of urban living, this thesis evaluates current living conditions in the modern city by considering the relevant historical background of collaborative living and working arrangements and allowing past projects to inform future-thinking designs."Item Restricted Crowne Plaza Berlin City Centre : a design proposal to attract millennials(2018) Heuberger, Deborah; Pöğün-Zander, Yüksel; Starck, Adrian von; Faculty of Architecture and Design; Berlin International University of Applied Sciences"The research focuses on the concept of integrating shared work spaces in hotel lobbies to attract millennial travellers and remote workers in Berlin. The aim of this research is to analyse methods in which city hotels can successfully meet the needs of millennial travellers, as well as present a design solution for the lobby space of the Crowne Plaza Berlin City Centre, which struggles to attract both millennial travellers and citizens of Berlin. [...] The paper first looks into the generation of millennials and defines their preferences and expectations in terms of work and travel. From their the report discloses current hotel trends and strategies applied to attract this generation. Furthermore, the research reveals the characteristics of contemporary work spaces and examines how they are shaped. Moreover, the research explains the concept of co-working spaces and describes some motivations of co-workers and what is necessary for co-working. In addition, the research presents two case studies, the Soho House Berlin and the Michelberger Hotel, two hotels that successfully integrated shared working areas in their lobby space and managed to achieve a popularity among remote workers and citizens in Berlin. Therefore, the case studies [...] help identify the qualities of the space in terms of service, layout and design. Hence, the knowledge gained can be directly applied to the design proposal of the Crowne Plaza Berlin City Centre. [...] the research contains a qualitative research method in form of a professional interview with Michael Mücke, the spokesman of the management board of Albeck & Zehden Hotels & Gastronomie, to detect design challenges attracting contemporary travellers and to discover existing strategies applied. Based on all these findings, a design proposal for the lobby space of the Crowne Plaza Berlin City Centre is provided."Item Restricted Enhancing the idea of community in a coworking space through interior design(2019) Gosh, Shareefa Abu; Ebert, Carola; Larsen, Sigurd; Faculty of Architecture and Design; Berlin International University of Applied Sciences"Over the last decades and thanks to the revolution of computing and mobile technology, the number of coworking spaces has dramatically increased, and people are no longer connected to their offices. Co-working spaces represent creative and energy-inducing places where small businesses, freelancers and start-ups can interact, share, build and co-found. Coworking is a service which landlords offer indirectly by offering a space for coworkers to network their other activities through collaborative interactions. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the interior design and spatial organization of several co-working spaces around the world, to understand how to create a space that facilitates the concept of community. This thesis looks at how coworking spaces function as workplaces and communities, and explore the strategies which already have been used in this field to achieve that goal."Item Restricted Hybrid workspaces : The redesign of business offices based on spatial criteria of coworking spaces in the frame of the third-place theory(2021) Braun, Lisa-Marie; bachelor thesis in Interior Architecture/ Interior DesignMACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE : Companies in many industries are currently faced with the individual decision of how to adapt their office space to the new situation of widespread New Ways of Working (e.g., remote working), even accelerated through COVID-19. What role does the physical office play when the focused and productive work is done remotely? Many companies have either completely or largely changed their work policies to remote and flexible, whereupon some companies have already entirely abandoned their physical office space and moved their business to the virtual world. For many businesses in various industries, however, the abandonment of the physical office is slightly more complicated, as many creative activities or team-based collaborations are simply not as successful without face-to-face interaction. The limitations of remote working were highlighted to us clearly by the Covid-19 lockdown, pointing to the need for spaces that provide an environment for activities that cannot be accomplished effectively remotely or online. Most likely, in the future, collaboration, personal interaction, and knowledge exchange will be the key activities when people return to the office space occasionally and meet physically, while concentrated and individual work will be carried out at home. Therefore, open floorplan layouts with assigned desks are in most cases no longer suitable for the hybrid working policies, with the effect that employees alternate between remote working and physical presence in knowledge-based companies. Hence, it is time to rethink traditional office design and create spaces that are primarily designed to enrich social interaction and provide a sense of community. Both refer to the term "third places," coined in the 1980s by the sociologist Ray Oldenburg. Third places are neither domestic places (the first place; the home) nor productive places (the second place; the traditional office). They initially describe places for social interaction (e.g., cafes). Today, this strict separation is no longer accurate. In recent decades new hybrid types of places have emerged due to changing sociological life concepts, technological innovations, and New Ways of Working. Today ́s coworking spaces form a type of such hybrid places, combining elements of the second place (the productive place) and Oldenburg ́s third place. Coworking spaces have evolved in the last years as a practical response to New Ways of Working. Analyzing coworking space design may provide indications for redesigning corporate offices. Therefore, this thesis aims to consolidate the design criteria of coworking spaces for the appropriate transfer for the redesign of corporate office environmentsItem Restricted New Work Within Old Walls : Adaptive Reuse of Farm Buildings for Rural Coworking Spaces(2021) Hiller, Lara; Huneck, Karsten; Martín, Javier; Interior Architecture / Interior DesignMACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE : Urban exodus is a steadily growing phenomenon in Germany. According to a study by Kantar Institute, only 13% of respondents want to live in the city in the future, while 51% said they would prefer to live in the countryside, in small towns and villages (Erhard, 2020). Brandenburg, for example, gained more immigrants in 2019 from Berlin than vice versa (Office for Statistics Berlin and Brandenburg, 2020). This trend is also evident in Munich and other large German cities. If one neglects the immigration- related influx from abroad, more people have been migrating to the suburbs than to big cities since 2014. The remote rural areas, however, do not benefit (Bähr and others 2020). This growth of the suburbs leads to an increase in commuting. As an evaluation by the "Bundesagentur für Arbeit"1 shows, the number of people commuting from Brandenburg to Berlin increased by 13.9% between 2013 and 2019 (Bockenheimer, 2019). Unfortunately, people moving out of the city does not necessarily lead to a qualitative transformation of the rural area - that cannot happen as long as the place of work is still in the city. Instead, the result is an increase in commuter traffic and a further expansion of the suburbs into rural areas, with well-known consequences for the structure of the communities affected. Village cores increasingly lose shops, bars, and diversity, while the new development areas on the outskirts grow - a phenomenon called the donut effect (Bähr and others, 2020, 12)