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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 environments