‘Working from Home’ – Recent development trends in terraced housing design in a new suburban township in Malaysia

Abstract

The COVID-19 outbreak has caused a massive increase in the number of Malaysians working from home. This scenario has put the living and working gap at disposal, questioning the relevancy of ‘living lifestyle’, particularly on the new housing township projects. This paper investigates the culture of working from home and its influence on the latest emerging township’s housing development model. Using the qualitative observation and comparative analysis approach, the findings suggest that integrating working culture into housing design will reinvent the spatial procession and quality of the living lifestyles, thus advocating for a new housing typology for the mass. Keywords: Working from home; Housing design; Spatial innovation; Living lifestyle eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: