Ricerc@Sapienza

After the Covid 19 emergency, we had to radically transform our way of life. This phenomenon concerns architecture first of all, as a science that studies and generates the space of living. From the parameters of proxemics, to the contamination of the public and private dimension, everything is suddenly changing and the architect is immediately called upon to do his best to ensure safety, quality of life and the right to closeness, despite everything. Regarding work spaces, however, the pandemic urgency seems to have only accelerated a process already underway for a long time, after “the third industrial revolution”, as Rifkin defines this kind of computer technological transformation. With this in mind, workplaces must be rethought so that the digital component, which is an indispensable tool for new production methods, does not supplant the physical dimension of work, but allows for enhancing communication and expanding its real space. At the same time, after the advent of teleworking, “home” is no longer just the place to “return to”, but becomes the space of “being in” and therefore it must be made flexible to different uses and concurrent needs. In this sense, this paper intends to investigate work spaces in their different declinations, starting from the relation between form and use, focusing on the compositive principle called “specific neutrality" as indispensable to our needs.