M0RPHOGENESIS

Ars. Manit and Sonali Rastogi lead their team to create a re-configurable design of open-office that can alter allocation of space as per requirement.

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RE-IMAGINING WORKSPACES

Ar. Sonali Rastogi, Founding Partner, Morphogenesis

COVID 19, has brought life to a standstill world over. The immediate priority for organisations now is to get people back to work as swiftly and safely as possible while making spaces humane and safer. These spaces need to adapt to people and their processes; the question is, how do these buildings accommodate the circumstances globally? What role do short-term solutions and long-term solutions play at a time like this?

The return to the workplace will be accompanied by challenges of navigation within the offices and will require measures to optimise entry and exit routes. However, before we examine and re-imagine spaces, it is essential to zoom out and understand that work is a 24hour process and not just limited to the workspace. It entails various modes and levels of transportation involved to commute to the office. Corporates should not only reconsider their office interiors, but also the safety of employees right from the moment they leave their house, come to the office, and go back home.

There must be protocols and sanitisation procedures in place at all entrance and exit points for all personas – employees, visitors, consultants, clients, housekeeping, contractors, etc. All office buildings must have necessary medical facilities where employees suffering from fever, etc., can be immediately taken to, with direct access to an ambulance van.