Post Covid Changes in Architectural Housing 2020, the year of pandemic has led to several new questions in all major fields. One of the fields that needs to be rethought is the Housing. With advent of working and living requirements within the house, it needs to be relooked, rethought and reworked keeping the new functions in mind. People have questioned the existence of huge office complexes for the work of office. Adapting to this ‘new-normal’, people have started the transition from their office environment to working in their own houses. The need for new office-house typology has come into picture where one can constantly shorten the bridge between the work environment and living environment and the transition between these two.
The focus would now turn to the intimate spaces of the home and quality and comfort a priority for choice. Houses to be more flexible in terms of its adaptive use as office would also be seen in future. The previous era where there used to be coworking spaces will reduce and the concept of ‘Bio Bubble’ will increase. The major change that would come is need for an acoustic space within the room owing to the long conference meetings or the virtual education system. The need for a better natural environment would come into picture to avoid seclusion for an isolated person. Exploitable Rooftops, Sanitized entrances, natural light and ventilation, Disease repellent material surfaces are one of the few prominent changes that the world would see more now.
Architecture has been ever developing as per the need of the hour. Ranging from modular temporary hospitals to tackle Covid-19 or co-working spaces, this year has brought a drastic change in the realm of Architecture. The ability for a residence to smoothly transition from a collective living environment to a cluster of isolated zones becomes essential to stop transmission.
Kuldeep Kundnani, SEMESTER- X INDUBHAI PAREKH SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE