Abstract
Sustainable spaces are those that are optimized, accessible, promote user experience and aim to reduce CO2 emissions while enhancing users’ well-being and comfort. The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology that was developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to understand and improve the use of coliving spaces based on remote Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) analysis of the digital trail generated by the users. Applying the POE methodology based on data collection from IT infrastructure enabled to identify opportunities to improve the future design of human-centered spaces. The residential market, design-wise traditional for centuries, is now facing a high-speed adaptation to the changing needs, accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis. New ways of living and shared spaces like Coliving are escalating. Technology is both an enabler of this shift in housing and the solution to operating and managing these new buildings. This paper demonstrates, through the case study of a Coliving space located in Madrid, Spain, the benefits of implementing data analysis of the digital trail collected from in-built IT systems such as smart locks, Wi-Fi networks and electric consumption devices. The conclusion is that analysing the available data from the digital infrastructure of coliving buildings can enable practitioners to improve the future design of residential spaces.
Highlights
Designing the perfect home for its resident has been architects’ ambition for centuries, aesthetic perfection, functionality, which responds to the consumer’s market
Before COVID-19, Europeans spent around 55%–66% of their time at home—home indoors—[11]; these ratios have increased during the pandemic, when we spent a considerably larger amount of time at home due to restrictions
The current research demonstrated how Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) techniques based on the digital trail can be employed to design a methodology for sustainable Human-Centered Design (HCD) Coliving spaces
Summary
Designing the perfect home for its resident has been architects’ ambition for centuries, aesthetic perfection, functionality, which responds to the consumer’s market. An unaffordable urban housing market [4] that makes houses non-accessible for part of the population and an increase in loneliness [5,6,7] are factors that are driving people towards diverse rental typologies with more shared spaces and innovative plug-and-play solutions, like coliving [8]. This is a trend that has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic [9,10]. In 2021, a new normality has brought new routines and evolving requirements for residential spaces
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