Composite image featuring architect Rahel Belatchew, who tells Radio Sweden about converting office space into housing.
Credit: Self-portrait and photograph of room by Rahel Belatchew. Blueprint by Will Scullin/Creative Commons. Composite by Radio Sweden.
Home makeovers
Will your bed lie where the water cooler once stood?
- Repurposing work and commercial spaces into housing may be better for the environment than building from scratch, but it has costs for property owners.
- A government-commissioned report lists key obstacles to these conversions.
- At a mall where foot traffic is down by 50% since the pandemic, architect Rahel Belatchew tells us whether, one day, it might make suitable housing.
