When the Pandemic strikes, everything in the underpinning pulls the future in question. But, we have survived this far by hopping onto the game of survival of the fittest! Since the COVID has struck our lives, we are busy adapting to the ongoing and yet entailing post-COVID days. This also necessitates some essential juxtaposition in our in-built environment, which has essentialized the COVID barricading of our surroundings.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”  – Le Corbusier

This learning of Corbusier is all about precise adaptation, and the need of the hour is an implementable post-pandemic solution in our living spaces. Real estate today, across the countries, is in the eye of the conflict of sorts, grappling with challenges at all ends. In the Post- COVID era, new constructions have to overcome the challenges faced by the dwellers in terms of space sharing and utilizing. Experts have begun to brainstorm to COVID proof the public and professional spaces. But, the shelters are yet to be addressed. A personal area amid pandemic has transcended the premise of comfort. The four walls have to be a multipurpose domain. Thus, to COVID proof, needs some smart revamping yet a workable one.

Here are the 10 points on how to COVID proof your house:

1. In the comfort zone, pull the professional set up.

As we are moving into the world stricken with COVID, our lives get circumscribed in our homes, where almost all the outdoor activity has to be carried out. The homely vibe has to have a cozy office feel too. So, the interior needs to have a little scope where the office timings can be carried out without a bit of tussle. Terraces and garages are going to be the viable option for home turned workspaces, if you have one, it’s time to lend it a thought.

2. Enhanced ventilation shall be emphasized.

Natural or Mechanical ventilation in the barricading effort would be the most incorporating thing. Where mechanical ventilation was preferred over the natural one, now both have to be put in place.

3. The filtration system makes your house a combat zone.

Well functioned and developed filtration systems need to be a required unit in your inbuilt spaces. Demand for safe and sanitized air is hard to overlook as systems filtering microdust, and other harmful substances can only ensure breathable and healthy livable areas.

4. Proofing with antibacterial Material wherever possible:

Antibacterial materials like copper alloys are already being utilized in newly constructed materials. Frequently touched zones need to be upgraded to these naturally insulating bacterial riddance fabrics, where risk about touch can be minimized.

5. Keep the elderly and children on guard via technology.

Houses operated by IoT and voice-activated systems reduce the touch demand to the minimal. Once this kind of technology proofing, your infrastructure with these no-touch operables like voice-activated and automatic doors can lessen the gullibility of the elders in multitudes.

6. It’s the time to relocate your bathrooms:

The essential giving of COVID literacy is the constant self sanitization the moment one enters the home. This could be ensured to the maximum if the washing space could be streamlined to the entrances. That would increase the risk mitigation capacity of your infrastructure to the maximum.

7. Reducing the house footprint:

There was once a time when compact spaces were detested, but this space reversal is right at the horizon. Primarily, going minimal makes the sanitization effort worth, and secondly, these spaces have to be self-sufficient in the best way possible so that vicinity hopping can be avoided.

8. Make your home a virtually conducive zone:

The actual has been taken over by virtual, but as you operate through it, what comes in the background does matter. Making a place virtually conducive would make you substantially love your domain as your pricking ambience will stand isolated with your work or classroom ambience.

9. Metal detector to Temperature detector:

The entrance to the buildings has metal detectors as a thing of a commonplace; the COVID era has essentialized the need for the metal detector. The cost factor makes it a community thing but is indeed capable of temperature shielding or UV disinfecting every house stored in the society.

10. Having smaller modular spaces:

Coexisting with corona doesn’t necessarily mean that you change your life and cut off all the contacts. These modular spaces will make you in the touchless zone but yet stay in touch and have the guests over. Also, when the guest leaves, there would be added ease while cleaning and disposing of off while keeping your central infrastructure isolated.

The new normal has a connotation of guided effort towards a future that tunneled through a pandemic. But, before this health leviathan comes back, our boundaries both in and outside should stand impenetrable to it.