Following the popularity of his series of video blogs for VDF, Tokyo architect Martin van der Linden has created a special movie about the post-coronavirus office, in which he wonders whether physical workspaces will become entirely digital.

"Will we soon move into a digital world, in which our avatars work and communicate without having to leave the bubble of our homes?" van der Linden asked in the latest video from his popular One Minute Architecture YouTube channel.

"Is our world going to be one in which we work in a completely digital environment, like digital characters in a game?"

Van der Linden explores the impact of coronavirus on offices

Van der Linden, the founder of Tokyo-based Van Der Architects, asked the questions at the end of the video, which speculates on what permanent impact the coronavirus pandemic might have on office spaces.

"Today, with the coronavirus crisis, companies are facing new challenges of how to use their workspaces," van der Linden said.

"Working from home has, for many of us, become mandatory and we must ask ourselves: 'Do we still need an office as a physical workspace?'"

In traditional offices "the hierarchy of the company can be read in the layout "

Throughout the video, van der Linden analyses different office environments in terms of whether the tools and spaces employees use are physical or digital.

He starts off by looking at traditional offices, before the mass adoption of digital technologies, which he describes as "analogue-analogue" because neither the spaces people worked in nor the tools they used were digital.