Dealing with Covid-19

The effect of Covid on the working environment:

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/the-future-of-work-after-covid-19

The Covid 19 pandemic disrupted labour markets globally during 2020. The short-term consequences were sudden and often severe: Millions of people were furloughed or lost jobs, and others rapidly adjusted to working from home as offices closed. Many other workers were deemed essential and continued to work in hospitals and grocery stores, on garbage trucks and in warehouses, yet under new protocols to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Before COVID-19, the largest disruptions to work involved new technologies and growing trade links. COVID-19 has, for the first time, elevated the importance of the physical dimension of work. In this research, we develop a novel way to quantify the proximity required in more than 800 occupations by grouping them into ten work arenas according to their proximity to co-workers and customers, the number of interpersonal interactions involved, and their on-site and indoor nature. This offers a different view of work than traditional sector definitions. For instance, our medical care arena includes only caregiving roles requiring close interaction with patients, such as doctors and nurses. Hospital and medical office administrative staff fall into the computer-based office work arena, where more work can be done remotely. Lab technicians and pharmacists work in the indoor production work arena because those jobs require use of specialized equipment on-site but have little exposure to other people (Exhibit 1).

The pandemic pushed companies and consumers to rapidly adopt new behaviors that are likely to stick, changing the trajectory of three groups of trends. We consequently see sharp discontinuity between their impact on labor markets before and after the pandemic.

https://www.aia.org/pages/6280670-covid-19-resources-for-architects/

How will coronavirus reshape architecture?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/dept-of-design/how-the-coronavirus-will-reshape-architecture

In recent months, we have arrived at a new juncture of disease and architecture, where fear of contamination again controls what kinds of spaces we want to be in. As tuberculosis shaped modernism, so covid-19 and our collective experience of staying inside for months on end will influence architectures near future. During quarantine, “we are asked to be inside our own little cells,” Colomina told me when I called her recently at her apartment, in downtown Manhattan. “The enemy is in the street, in public spaces, in mass transit. The houses are presumably the safe space.” The problem is, the modernist aesthetic has become shorthand for good taste, rehashed by West Elm and minimalist life-style influencers; our homes and offices have been designed as so many blank, empty boxes. We’ve gone, Colomina said, “from hospital architecture to living in a place like a hospital,” and suddenly, in the pandemic, that template seems less useful.

Domestic Space -Quarantine makes all nonessential workers more intimately acquainted with the confines of their homes. We know everything about them, especially their flaws: the lack of daylight in one room, the dirty floor in another, the need for an extra bathroom. Space is all we have to think about. For architects, it’s a soul-searching exercise, especially if you happen to live in a home you outfitted for yourself.
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City Space

How will we as Pacha Studios deal with Covid-19?

Within Pacha Studios dealing with covid-19 has taught us to meet with clients over digital means through zoom, Microsoft teams or facetime or within an open field where there is plenty of space to social-distance. With the use of technology there has been an advancement to the way we can now communicate with people without being with them in person, and showing our designs to clients has been developed due to be able to send them through to them via emails which limits the spread of the disease as there is no physical thing for everyone to touch.