Covid-19 has changed everything and things will never be same again. We are at the beginning of the end, waiting for a new beginning. Mother earth seems breaking its cooperation agreement with mankind unless we revise our behaviour.

Values will change, our lives and habbits will change, and our homes will also change under that influence. With that in mind, here are several predictions for changes that might occur.

Office at home

Due to this lockdown, quarantine, most of us forced to work from home. There will be people who will on the first day after quarantine, run to meet colleagues and drink that coffee. But there will be those also who will not want to return to the office.

Workplace will shift at home from office. Spatial organisation will change, with the place to work at home no longer on desk witha parody of an office chair and a lamp, slotted somewhere in the corner of the living room or under the stair. In response, offices will make more of an effort to win us back.

Purified air and water

water and air filtration systems tend to be seen as an unnecessary addition, easily abandoned in favour of a designer table. After the pandemic the trend will change, as people will be willing to pay for the excavation,surveys and filtration systems needed to instant a well.

Manufacturer of smart home systems will go one step further. Their programs will not only control the temperature of the air in the house, but also its quality,and if necessary, they will automatically clean it. Air from outside will also be filtered.

House over apartments

High rise buildings were designed to organise as many people as possible in one place. Health and hygiene were not a considerstion. In times of pandemic, it is necessary to reduce contact with everything that is used in multi-storeyed buildinds: elevators, elevator buttons, door handles, surface and above all neighbours.

After forced self- isolation on different floors above the ground, often without a balcony or terrace, we will all desperately want to have a house. It can be small, but with a courtyard and a terrace where you can have hot cup of tea in the morning. 

Today, people need a house that can effectively provide social isolation. More than an escape from routine and urban chaos, the house now offers a retreat from viruses and infections. Urbanisation takes a step back as we relocate to small villages and city suburbs.

Let's see how will cope with this changes and make it a new normal.