The instant office in the ageing society: accessible and sustainable workspheres for politropic space systems, objects and devices related to the needs of ageing people in Europe

Focusing the research activity on the defining of design solutions capable of assuring the most effective individualization of workspaces, with regard to the issues related to global mobility, physical and cognitive accessibility, and particularly to the phenomenon of mature age employment, the project is aimed to introduce new comfort tenor in the everyday life practices involved in the incipient work-spreading process. The investigation of a specific work landscape, related to the instances of temporariness, mobility and ubiquity of non-residential work conditions, highlights a great variety of practices and attitudes, space and device organization, comfort and communication systems, and identifies different conditions in which the incipient transformations are particularly relevant in their relation with architecture, bringing new instances to the permanent structure and to institutes of associated life (office buildings, open spaces, airports, railway stations, malls...). Addressed to fulfil the needs of workers subjected to the fragmentation of bijection between workplace and activity, and complying with the requirements of new work organization, it introduces an articulated system witch merges intimately in the urban tissue, allowing the sprawled workers the highest conditions of wellness, information and communication exchange, and technical equipment.