The public office - a symbiosis in urban area

Abstract

Opening the public office The public office is a facility which is shared by people who want to have temporary workplace. This workplace is provided to give people chance to work individually or collectively for their purpose. The behavior, working, can be defined as more voluntary one in this case. Volunteered working life would relieve work-life balance argument by cooperation rather than competition between members in the society. In my proposal, buildings in urban area have their ground floor as public area where people can have both its indoor and outdoor environment. As an example of this proposal, the lobby in a offi ce building is used as a public office by anybody who finds that place suitable for their workspace which already has infrastructure for work. This public office is combined with green area, so people in the office can have nature right beside them, which they cannot get in the conventional workspaces. The sharable workspace which takes some portion of the host building is managed and maintained by cooperation of the local government, the owner of the building and the offi ce users with green area as a medium. This is what I call a symbiosis in urban area.