About residential buildings

- A building in which sleeping accommodation is provided for normal residential purposes,

and includes one or more family dwellings, lodging or boarding houses, hotels,
dormitories, apartment houses, flats and private garages of such buildings. All buildings
intended for private occupancy whether on a permanent basis or not. And should also be
the distinguishing qualities of every residential buildings.
Based on the interview statement of different person;
I. In her own experience this pandemic really cause too much anxiety and stress knowing a
lot of people died. We might not do the things we wanted to and also regards with
financial problems.
II. The effects of covid-19 is awareness of family when someone is working outside the
cities, but the others common effect is lack of student learnings because of this pandemic,
schools are offer online classes that’s the reason other student choosing to work. On the
other hand all products are increasing twice to its original price and if you have a
business affected by pandemic it can cause lack of sustaining the goods for your family
needs and wants.
III. It affects to our time that was wasted, emotionally and financially because of pandemic,
one of our family member amputated his right leg and delays all the activities that was
planned.
IV. The effects of covid-19 on our home made us aware of what to do. All works must be
clean. We have steps on how to maintain and to prevent this. When you’re outdoors your
wearing footwear and it should be left outside.
V. Covid-19 hits the world in an unexpected ways. Its hits every aspect of our lives. and the
disadvantages – make human fear into the unknown, makes our life more complicated,
used by leaders to manipulate people, poverty inclined and the advantages – helps us
remember the sanctity of communication in the family, helps us see the beauty of basic
health needs like always clean the environment, homes, healthy diets and more., help us
realizes that not everything we planned are smart, helps us realizes that health is wealth,
helps us the determined to be good person to our world and may this pandemic help us
also be better in the future.
VI. The effects of pandemic in my daily life is the way that I usually routine by personally
connected to people I interact that now had a great impact of causing my mental health.
Especially, in terms of my attitude and point of view of meeting new people.
And that are the statement of a different people as we can see some of people have a the same
experience and facing the new realities of working from home, temporary unemployment, home-
schooling of children, and lack of physical contact with other family members, friends and
colleagues take time to get used to. Adapting to lifestyle changes such as these, and managing
the fear of contracting the virus and worry about people close to us who are particularly
vulnerable, are challenging for all of us. They can be particularly difficult for people with mental
health conditions.
Design considerations

Covid-19 pandemic built environment has an important role in determining the health and
well-being with the majority of people’s times spent indoors. Examining construction is
essential to understand how we can minimize the spread of viruses within buildings.

o Durability and cost efficiency

– make sure the building is durable, use low maintenance materials that are strong and
reliable.
o Accessibility, flowing & circulation ventilation
– Open living spaces make supervision easier and allow a good connection between the
families. Occupants must consider multi-purpose rooms that can share the room with
other activities.
o Flexible furniture
– It should be well arranged to fit into your plan and it’s allow to smooth movement.
They should not obstruct the traffic flow - no excess furniture. Working with innovative
systems such as this can provide additional guest rooms even if it is only needed in
emergency uses and purposes.
o Divisible rooms/storage
- Consider adding additional storage space when designing a house so that it doesn’t start
to get cluttered. And consider including built-in storage in the plan. The can converted
into bedrooms for preparation for a quarantine.
o Culture
– It is vital to make sure that they are also comfortable with design. There should be
provision for everyone. Building structure, appliances, furnishing, and all other areas of
home designing should be in line with best fits their family.
 Goals:
1. To design a residential house that
has an open living space for
physical and psychological
activities.
2. To design a residential house that
reduces the cost of electricity. By
this, it will reduce the financial
cost of electricity that runs the
artificial light and ventilation
especially these pandemic times.
3. A design that can bring a stress
free environment and wider
opening area such as window and
doors and adding some air
ventilation will enhance the
liveability of the area. We make
proper house plan to retain its
liveability.
Sprint Questions:
Is it safe for the occupants to have
an open space area for
psychological and physical
activities during these pandemic
times?
In this pandemic the electricity
increase per KW/H. How can we
sure that the cost of electricity of
house cannot affect?
Since open living space plan is an
open area, occupants would
create a noise for some instance
that could cause neighbourhood
disturbance. How to create design
of an open living space plan that
could minimise the noise?
Opportunity Statement:
Design an open space area that
could eliminate the unwanted air
that might bring infectious corona
virus for the occupants.
Design a home that could reduce
the cost of electricity by adding
an open living space area that
gain natural lighting and
ventilation instead of using
artificial. Moreover, photovoltaic
(PV) mounting system solar
panels on roof that lessen the cost
of electricity and prevent
electrical hazards caused by
electrical wire.
There are a number of specialty
materials available for sound
control. These are design to
provide strategic advantages over
traditional materials, and are
design for use in situations where
controlling sound or noise levels
is of great concern.
4. Maintaining a house that has an
easy access to ensure the dwellers
safety.
Since safety of houses is always
considered during this pandemic
times, how to make it stand out
from others but at the same time
safe and secured from the virus?
Provide designs in accordance
with good practice as well as
applicable house, fire, safety, and
health codes and regulation.
Consider life practices, physical
requirements, and eliminating
confined spaces when designing a
house to prevent an occupational
injuries.

Other possible solution:

 Provide adequate space for maintenance, repair, and expansion in electrical rooms and
closets.
 Provide adequate drainage and/or containment from areas with energized electrical
equipment.
 Evaluate all areas where ground fault circuit interruption (GFI) and arc fault interruption
(AFI) devices may be needs.
 Install non-conductive flooring at service locations for high voltage equipment.
 Provide interior and exterior floor surfaces that do not pose slip or trip hazards.
 Select exterior walking surface materials that are not susceptible to changes in elevation
as a result of freeze/thaw cycles.
 Provide adequate illumination, both natural and artificial, for all interior and exterior
areas. See daylighting and energy efficient lighting.
 Provide guardrails and barriers that will prevent falls from heights in both interior and
exterior.