Immobilienreport 2016 – Communicating Architecture

The book examines the following topics:

• Flexible workplaces: new office concepts are just around the corner. In future, workplaces won’t be bound to a single location and may be shared with co-workers or even other companies.

• Next-generation intelligence: our environment is getting smarter. Hot on the heels of the smartphone come the smartcar and smarthouse. Technology will start to learn and think ahead – and buildings will have to adapt accordingly.

• Communicating spaces: The fusion of digital and physical worlds. Digitisation is already forcing us to fundamentally reconsider the sales concepts of retail stores. Consumer spaces will in future become hybrid places.

• Genius loci: location, perspective, service. The highly competitive travel market will need new ideas to convince customers in the future. New concepts, such as like ultra-localism, are revolutionising the tourism industry.

• Housing industry: housing shortage on the one hand, empty flats on the other. How will the real estate market change in the coming years?

• ‘Dynamic methods’: the end of static reviews. Dynamic forecasting tools are heralding new methods of property valuation.