Current office design ignores environmental factors and the inhabitant conditions. As a result, there is a global typology that offers uncomfortable and high energy consuming spaces that exclude and isolate the occupants. A poor perception of the working space drives the user to a negligent adaptive behaviour, degraded mood and deficient productivity rates. Climate, context, new working trends and occupants’ perception and behaviour towards space are essential to design or upgrade office typologies.
This dissertation was developed with the aim to provide a design method that takes the occupants’ comfort perception and response into account for working spaces. The proposed strategies are tested in an existing office building in Madrid.
