#3 Mixed living and working programmes – from generic to specific

Developments today and tomorrow
The relation between living and working is presently undergoing rapid change. The service business sector is growing faster than the industrial and agricultural sectors. Industry is becoming cleaner, and communication technology continues its dizzying pace of advance. The traditional family unit is continually losing ground to newer living patterns such as one-person households and couples who reverse the conventional domestic roles. There is a rising demand for space for start up companies, especially in creative business sectors. These trends hold out the prospect of greater functional mixing, which may help prevent towns turning into huge, monofunctional seas of housing with the associated risks of urban decay, ghetto formation and rundown commercial zones.

These factors make it relevant to redefine the changing relation between living and working. Present planning mechanisms are poor at responding to the changing patterns of demand for homes and offices. It is necessary to devise new urban housing types, which accommodate a multiplicity of mixed functions, so that they can cope with programmatic and spatial changes. The new types must be capable of reflecting the phenomenon of changing lifestyles and the imperatives of sustainable building by making intelligent use of scarce space.

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Introduction
Mixed living and working programmes–from generic to specific
JaspervanZwol

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