Reinterpreting the University Workplace Interior Space as a Strategy of Habitability Post-COVID: Processes and Design Proposals

Abstract

The difficult health situations, which we face since the first trimester of 2020 and until today, have, perhaps, forced us to redirect the discourse regarding the configuration of everyday living spaces of human-beings, being protection the paradigm of design in interior space. In light of this, and through an academic exercise of the interior space intervention, involving three teachers and three students of the B.A. in Interior Design, it is proposed to share the creative process of configuration of synchronous remote mode and the results of the reinterpretation of some academic-administrative workplaces of the Center for Design and Construction Sciences. Through the use of methodologic tools, developed and implemented by members of the Interior Design academia, which permit to analyze the issues and variables impacting the problem, including the representation and communication of the interior space and the elements that are conformed, interior design acts as a catalyzer to habitable atmospheres in response to the imminent reality of a new normal, the result of the pandemic situation.

Translated by Adán Israel Vázquez Alba