The Flexible Housing System in China and Home Working During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Nowadays, in the midst of growing population and urbanisation, the housing problem is severe in the Chinese market. This thesis investigates flexible housing combined with the homeworking model appropriate for today's Chinese housing market by studying the concept of flexible housing and the homeworking model, tracing their history, and considering the current situation. Furthermore, this thesis is based on a consideration of the development of the flexible housing system and homeworking in the residential space of the pandemic era and beyond. Keeping up with the times, this thesis employs the case study approach to investigate more flexible, healthy and liveable residences through a graphical and textual analysis of buildings constructed in the last two decades that contain homeworking and the flexible housing system, to contribute to China's real estate industry’s sustainable future.