Faculty of Architecture students developed the project Adaptive Living Spaces, episode 1: COVID-19

The Adaptive Living Spaces project, episode 1: COVID-19 was developed by first and second year students of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo, in the format of an optional exercise in Design 1, Design Theory and Methodology and Design Basics 2, exclusively through online teaching.

Adaptable Habitats, Episode 1: COVID-19 
www.adaptibilni.info

Students were tasked to map the current situation and explore the possibilities of their own housing in the context of adapting to the global pandemic

COVID-19, which, like other global events, directly affects lifestyle changes, and thus the design of housing and workplaces.

From minimal apartments in collective housing buildings, to spacious floors of individual houses, from a room of 9.78 m2 with “endless possibilities”, to an apartment of 150 m2 in which the “Corona-Line" is clearly drawn. From Lukavac and Srebrenik to Konjic and Travnik, from Dolac Malta to Koševski brdo, we can see a number of floor plans of residential areas that do not differ much from the usual dispositions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and as such examples can serve many who are not professionally related to architecture, but they want more comfortable and safer living spaces.

That architectural design does not only mean drawing is also proven by the text that students formulate during the work process: “How to place the infinity of the outside world in about 60 square meters of our apartment? Sometimes it is enough to just move the house ficus to another place, and for the brave ones - maybe in our projects you will find inspiration to ‘erase’ the boundaries of your inner and infinite outer space! ”

Zoran Doršner, the author of "Proposal for the adaptation of an apartment in Sarajevo under siege" (1994), recalled a similar work by Sarajevo architects more than 25 years ago:
"I remind you that 35 members of the Society of Architects of Sarajevo in June 1994 during the siege of the city, in protest against urbicides, prepared and published a protest presentation of works presented in early 1995 in Strasbourg and New York about the devastated 35,000 apartments and buildings. , among other things, proposed a new chapter to the universal architectural encyclopedia of Architectural Design (E. Neufert), which would include this student content of Adaptable Living Spaces (for survival), and such projects once again show the thoughtfulness and studiousness of our students in conventional housing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also in the context of the changed living conditions brought about by the global COVID-19 pandemic. ”