Dominant function
This typology provides a design tool for the development of a range of workhomes. A lack of understanding of these distinctions has led to problems in the development of 'live/work' schemes in the UK where local planning authorities thought they had given permission for 'work-dominated' workhomes, but 'home-dominated' were built.
Home-dominated:
The first, and most common type, involves people working in their home. These workhomes include a wide range of different buildings, from eighteenth century thatched houses to council flats. Some have been purpose-designed, some have been adapted to the dual use, while others are used ‘as found’.
Work-dominated:
The second type involves people living at their workplace. This includes a wide range of different work-dominated buildings, from funeral parlour to industrial unit, rectory to school caretaker’s accommodation embedded in a school building, work/live unit to pub.
Equal status:
The third type involves buildings in which the two functions have equal status on the street. Examples include dwellings with adjacent workplaces and those with workplaces at the bottom of a garden or courtyard accessed from parallel, often mews, roads.
