A Case Study on Spatial Design and Covid-19

Impact of Covid-19 on Lifestyle Modifications

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This is a case study on Spatial design is which about occupying space and how people move and interact with the space they live in, and then develop ways to improve them. Most of the time, space designers work in the interior design field and so they need to improve the way people live in space by making small and big changes.It affected how people interact with each other; they were forced to wear masks, interact with each other while maintaining social distance, sanitize their hands regularly, etc. These lifestyle changes were implemented to save the people from Covid-19 and have become a permanent part of our lives. The changes will stay until the disease will be completely defeated and medication is available (Honey-Rosés)

As Covid-19 has affected all aspects of our lives, it is important to understand that it's a long-lasting disease that will stay for a longer period. To remain safe from Covid-19, lifestyle modifications are essential. Social distancing has become a permanent part of our lives, and we must accept the reality and adopt changes that will help to live with them more easily. Lifestyle modifications will allow people to adopt methods that will decrease disease chances and help them carry out their tasks in a relaxed environment. People need to be altered, and permanent change should be made in such places (Hall).

Spatial design is related to architecture, man, and interior designing and helps to modify the space with the situation and client requirements. As the Coronavirus affected a large number of people in adverse ways and has resulted in the loss of a large number of lives, it's important to consider that lifestyle modification had become necessary. The changes are required to make concerning spatial and man. Spatial designs need to be altered concerning symmetry, size, segments, and measurements, and they need to be analyzed properly before implementing the designs (Salama).

As pandemic results in all forms of changes in people's lives, and spatial designers implement such changes more effectively. Integrated design helps to design both empathetically and proactively, and the factors such as humans preferences and choices and the financial viability are considered. Covid-19 has affected how people interact with one another, and the pandemic has affected the numerous factors of lives such as travel, health care, hospitality, travel, entertainment, and the retail sector. All of these people require people to interact with one another as well as with the staff etc. All industries require a special sort of interaction with the physical world and thus have altered needs and requirements. Thus, a spatial designer must consider the specific needs and challenges and the people's experiences with the people (Sharifi).

Spatial Design: How it Can Help People to Live Safely

According to the current needs and requirements, it is essential that businesses follow the beneficial principles for the people and businesses and can be implemented long term with no possible harm to the people. One of the basic changes needed in the world right now is to normalize the tough free interactions, and this should be preached and practiced immediately. The second thing should be to enable and facilitate social distancing as it helps to decrease the spread of disease and protect the people. Virtual and physical worlds should be integrated, and people should be encouraged to work from home whenever possible. Human density should be lowered, and people should be empowered with smarter devices. Quick response is essential at this stage of life, and these responses should be able to meet the people's needs in practical ways. Lessons should be learned from Covid-19, and businesses should find new ways of operating to save from the threats.

The fear of contamination will change the buildings' architecture as people will want to be in safe places. The modern architecture of the twentieth century resulted from the fear of tuberculosis as people wanted to avoid the dark and shady places where bacteria can grow and infect them. As a result, big roofs and sunlit houses were built. As tuberculosis resulted in the modernized buildings, the experience of Covid-19 will change architecture as people were forced to live in their houses for a long period. The reason was danger was everywhere outside, and one was presumably safe in their little houses. The best places for quarantine are not wide-open spaces but small and compact places with defensive themes.

Although all Covid will transform all sorts of spaces in the long term, it's effect will be different for domestic and business places. The domestic places will be transformed as people are confined to their houses, and they need their workstations at home and places where the children can take online classes in privacy. People want to have outdoor activities outside their houses and small private places inside their homes to bear its consequences better. The personal spaces at homes need to be connected to the world virtually and physically compact and private. People can feel safe again and resume normal activities after the pandemic ends.

The office places need prophylactic designs as people need clear reminders repeatedly to remain socially distant to stop the virus from spreading. The office spaces need to be modernized, and thus, special focus should be made on the interior, and sitting arrangements should be made so that people remain comfortable and safe.

Changes Required in Architecture of Buildings to Ensure Safety

The city spaces need to be reorganized as pandemic led people to move into their homes as the outside world was not safe. Public spaces in the cities such as parks, cafes, etc. must be utilized by the people appropriately. With the pandemic, the cities need to arrange the infrastructure and places to save people from the pandemic and relax outdoors in exciting manners (Jiang, Peng).

In the past, pandemic altered the way people interacted with one another, and it is expected that the pandemic will affect the urban design for the short or long term, depending upon the time the pandemic is going to stay. All sorts of public spaces are open while following the safety deadlines, and the changes that will occur in the spaces will not be spatial only but also physical, cultural, emotional, etc. History indicates that catastrophes altered the spatial places in the long run. The quarantine has made us all spatially separable, and the big buildings used for shopping malls will experience losses due to quarantine. Shields are used to protecting the person who interacts with the customers, which will continue till the end (Megahed).

Process-oriented changes will be more visible after the end of Covid. Changes will be implemented in inventory as well as human control activities. The process will be changed as people will have to follow the rules and regulations. The human control activities will be altered as people will need to follow the guidelines such as maintaining distances etc. The designers have identified the way people need to manage their spatial places, and cities will be redesigned to cope with future challenges. Instead of open offices, deep work chambers will become popular, and they will be more private and productive. As Covid resulted in a virtual world where people working in non-essential businesses were forced to work from home, it will become popular and more businesses can choose to go virtual, which will save a lot of resources of the offices.

Public places will become more automated rather than manual, resulting in advanced technology such as touch free doors, switches, etc. The purpose was to keep the people safe by developing more technology. New technology will be used to clean the places themselves, and flat surfaces will be avoided completely. The basic purpose is to develop spaces that are unique and clean themselves from germs through ventilation.

The United States is one of the countries affected by the pandemic largely, and the conditions called for desperate measures to further save the country. As spatial places play a great role in the virus's propagation, the results are that new ideas are generated to save the country from the virus's effects. The spatial places for collective and individual usage are changed completely to facilitate the people. The houses must be built with care at the individual level, and a deeper touch should be added to the personal space. People want a space that can be used for working from home and a personal relaxing place. A lot of children are homeschooling as schools have been shut down. This homeschooling concept requires rooms where children can take online classes without distractions and enjoy when they are free. As a result, the homes' spatial places must be altered to meet the needs of the future.  If people live in homes most of the time, they need homes to be arranged properly with pleasant feelings. The negativity and dullness of the homes should be removed and fixed by bright positivity.

Covid has altered people's life styles, and now people prefer to spend most of their time in their homes. People working in non-essential jobs are required to work from homes, and this called for spatial designers to facilitate people to redesign their homes appropriately. However, there are many places where people need to go even regularly, such as banks, grocery stores, airports, etc. For this very reason, such places should be modified to meet the needs of Covid. Social distancing should be practiced at all costs, precautionary measures must become a part of life, and the public spaces must be altered according to time's needs and requirements.