Interior design features predicting satisfaction with office workspace privacy and noise

Background and aim - Lack of privacy is a prominent issue in contemporary offices. This study aimed to identify interior design features that jointly influence satisfaction with privacy and noise in the office workspace, and estimate their predictive power. This knowledge can inform strategic workplace design. Methods - Eight design features...

Domestic Imprints: Florence Knoll and the role of domesticity in the early post-war american office

The early 20th century office was strongly affected by the Taylor’s ideas on people’s productivity. Office workers were closely treated like machine parts conducting specific activities of the “production line”. The architectural space was designed as to increase the workers’ productivity and it was molded by the new subjectivity (Neue...

Post-pandemic office real estate: A pilot study of using scenario planning to develop scenarios with quantitative office space demand for corporate real estate

The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic is profound and enduring to the entire world. A ‘recovery’ to go back in time is unlikely to happen due to the lack of uncertainty in the future. The darkest time will eventually pass, whereas post-pandemic, the era in which the pandemic is perceived to have subsided, can still accelerate existing trends...

Interior design features predicting satisfaction with office workspace privacy and noise

Background and aim – Lack of privacy is a prominent issue in contemporary offices. This study aimed to identify interior design features that jointly influence satisfaction with privacy and noise in the office workspace, and estimate their predictive power. This knowledge can inform strategic workplace design.<br/>Methods – Eight design features...

Real Estate at Schiphol Amsterdam Airport: Creating a program to foster the strategic growth of Schiphol based on the knowledge economy

This report focuses on the optimal utilization of commercial office real estate at Schiphol Amsterdam Airport to further contribute to the Mainport Strategy of the Netherlands. It is important to realize that the non-aeronautical activities play a crucial role for the business of the airport, especially considering factors such as a limit on the...

Rotterdam's Transformation Potential: Transforming vacant office space into housing

This research aims to uncover the transformation potential of the structural vacant office space in Rotterdam to residential space. The office market in the Netherlands has become a replacement market. The result of this replacement market is that users can choose to rent the highest quality offices at the best locations due to the surplus of...

Social Temperature Sensing

Subjective well-being in an office space has been an important topic of discussion. While traditional companies focus on measuring the well-being of an employee by factors like one's salary and social standing, research has shown that factors like the office environment, work delegation and office ethics have more effect on an employee's well...

The effects of a Task facilitating Working Environment on office space use, communication, concentration, collaboration, privacy and distraction