The contemporary architecture is often based on our usual methods of energy-focused sustainable buildings. These seem to strive toward excessive insulation and mechanical ventilation to create a sustainable building. It is driven by adding technical measures later in the project rather than creating sustainable architecture. In this report I designed a home which goes beyond the usual methods. The design is based on the Japanase architecture. It is a building that reduces the demand of energy in a less superficial way than most of the contemporary architecture.

In response to the contemporary lifestyle of the Dutch people the Dutch labor market is changing. They want flexible working hours and –spaces which suits their flexible lifestyle. A response to these changes is the arise of the group ‘zzp’ers’. This group exists out of people that carries out work for their own account or risk and who does not employ any staff. They have a different relation with their employer which makes them a vulnerable group. I designed a building, the so called ‘zzp workhome’, which removes this vulnerability by creating a community with special attention for the diversity of this group of people.