Smart solutions for adaptive workplaces. Architectural and technological applications

Contemporary workplace design demands unconstrained planning typologies, based on long-term vision regarding flexibility of space and remodeling, according to occupant activities and necessities. As creative thinking becomes the most powerful human asset, employee wellbeing demands major architectural and technical improvements to be included in office space-planning, reducing detrimental building-related health issues. Isolated or unplanned interventions are proven insufficient to acquire desired wellbeing results; therefore, a series of interrelated actions is needed for the creation of healthy workplaces. Specialty studies have been focusing for several years on developing architectural and technological solutions to enhance productivity, but the present study aims to interweave design and electrical engineering for wellbeing and environmental purposes. Firstly, connection to natural elements based on Biophilic attributes, is seen as restorative and offering balanced response to an increasingly denser built-environment. Secondly, the support of technical systems for indoor climate optimization aim to replicate outdoor environments while allowing local occupant control over individual comfort necessities.