“Post-pandemic co-working spaces”

This second edition of the joint pedagogical program in the framework of two-week long Exchange Schools, a Summer School 2022 in Switzerland, and Winter School 2023 in South Korea, consisted of lectures, workshops, and studios. The essential part of each Exchange School was the visit of case study buildings by students and the analysis of the building design, operation, indoor comfort, occupant’s satisfaction, and behaviour by different student groups, especially after the pandemic has changed the ways of work and building uses. The main task of the student groups was to design a building assessment method, and to collect, process and evaluate data from the existing buildings in the post-pandemic era. Based on the findings, the groups had to develop innovative solutions for the improvement of the built indoor environment, the satisfaction of the occupants with the building, and human-building interaction in the context of the diversity of occupants and architectural design across Switzerland and South Korea.

Behaviour of buildings and indoor environmental quality are generally different for heating (winter) and cooling (summer) seasons. For these reasons, the topic of summer comfort has been investigated in Switzerland during the Summer Exchange School in 22 August – 1 September 2022 and the topic of winter comfort has been studied in South Korea during the Winter Exchange School in 6 -17 February 2023