As always, the question of the right working environment in the office – magnified by Covid and the accelerated home-office-ification of the professional world – is usually less a question of the work tasks themselves, and much more about the zeitgeist, (social) psychology, and collective attitudes toward work life and work styles. In short: It is about (to quote myself again) the constantly changing “social contract of office life.” Two years ago, I concluded, and I wasn‘t the only one, that contemporary office (interior) architecture must be highly adaptive and attempt to “give the workplace a sense of home, so to speak, without deprofessionalizing it.” I still see it exactly the same way today.
But of course, there is a reason I am sending you another e-Letter about the Heinrich Campus after two years. That reason is the completion of the very last construction phase, Phase III – the interior fitout of the spaces for Deloitte Digital and the Smart Factory on the ground floor. And this also provides a genuinely interesting update on the concept of New Work.
