A sneak peek into a post-COVID-19 home
Let us sneak a peek inside your post-pandemic home.
You enter your home carrying essentials that guarantee you a ‘quaran-time’ of about a week. Consumed by the fear of contaminating your home, your safe place, you hesitate.
You now find yourself in need of a ‘buffer zone’ – a place where you can leave groceries, online deliveries and humans alike, and buy yourself time to breathe easy (literally). A place that is part of your house but not your home.
The modern open plan does not work here. You need to enclose this activity and for that, historical architecture has a solution - the foyer, the hallway or the “verandah”. Integrating a wet area for cleaning up (powder toilet) and a dry one (a store), gives us Zone 1.