THE ADAPTABILITY OF THE HABITABILITY TO COVID-19

Abstract

At the end of the second decade of the 21st century, something arose in the world that would
drastically change the day-to-day life of human beings and consequently their living
conditions. Without a doubt, we have all had to adapt to the changes required by the current
COVID-19 pandemic. Human beings have diversified their habitat over time, defining
exclusive spaces for rest, work, recreation, consumption, etc. and the current world situation
forced us to adapt these spaces for new uses that perhaps before, were unthinkable. Without
a doubt, from a macro level as a city, to a micro level as a house or room, changes were made
that marked the beginning of the third decade of the century and that will not be exclusive to
the time that the pandemic lasts, many will define a new habitability for the decade and future
of human beings, as happened in its moment in the 14th century with the Black Death.
Perhaps the most notorious example was the adaptability of housing, to a space of work,
study, recreation, etc. such is the impact that it caused, that currently is rethinking its function
and the need for other spaces.