From 106 respondents, their steps of health
protocol when arriving at home before pandemic was
on average 5-9 steps. The majority of the first step is
getting inside the entrance door (No.5) then washing
hands and feet (No.3). the popular action after that
was sitting on the sofa/chair to relax (No. 9). Besides
those 3 actions, other steps had a vaguer pattern. From
this analysis, we can conclude that respondents had
very little thought about healthy steps arriving home
(Susilo, 2021). Since there was no health threat before
the pandemic, sometimes cleaning oneself was
missing in daily health habits.
Figure 3: Table Frequency and Priority of Q23B. (Source:
Susilo, 2021).
Figure 3 describes a change of health protocols
after the pandemic. After the pandemic majority of
steps done by respondents increased into 9-11 steps
(Susilo, 2021). The increase was a natural case since
more things to do to comply with health protocols.
Generally, this proves interior designers have to
respond to changing mindsets and habits of
respondents, especially in the programming phase.
The first thing most respondents did was spraying
sanitizer (No.1) to self, and spraying sanitizer to
objects they brought home (No.2) (Susilo, 2021). At
field observation, the spraying could happen when
entering personal vehicles and redone it again when
arrived at home. The next popular step was washing
hands and feet (No.3), throwing or washing face
masks (No.4), then entering the house (No.5). Steps
of taking baths (No.7) and washing hair (No.8) shift
to earlier steps than before pandemic, emphasize its
importance to health protocols. Before pandemic, its
steps done in later steps leisurely, after taking rest at
sofa/chairs (No.9).
Step playing with children/pets (No.11) increased
significantly after the pandemic and was majorly put
at the end of health protocol steps (Susilo, 2021).
There was increasing consciousness to precede health
protocols before leisure time and put the young ones'
safety first. Family bonding activities increased and
more important in pandemic time; they functioned as
tension barriers and simple survival methods.
3.2 Change of Programming
The change in human behavior and daily habits will
affect the change in space programming (League,
2019). The change of space needs, its functions, and
space organization will follow how people perceive
space.
Programming as part of the analysis and aim to
look for design problems from environments, users,
and technologies to meet design standards (Kilmer,
2014). Programming preceded design as problem-
solving actions since it will give the problem to solve.
In programming, the main actions were finding and
formulate attributes needed by users.
Observation data gathered from institutional
media websites, including Forbes (media), The
Jakarta Post (media), Italianbark (media and retailer),
Kompas (media), Business of Home (media), Auburn
University (education), Interior Design Magazine
(media), Bobby Berk (retailer), Dezeen (media),
Archipanic (media), Society of British Interior
Design (organization), Mydomaine (media), Norr
(interior firm), FOXBusiness (media). Related
articles, discussions, and information were gathered
and analyzed using the qualitative method. The aim
was to look for keywords and statements regarding
residential changes. From around 30 articles between
March 2020 until August 2020, researchers found 87
statements regarding various aspects changed around
the residential settings. These statements are then
clustered into 12 settings: general ideas, general
spaces, design settings, bathroom, kitchen,
working/learning, outdoor settings, entertainments,
history, internet of things, and material.
Learning from history, designers first talked about
earlier pandemic changes. There were at least two
settings globally mentioned: bubonic plague in
Yunnan, China in 1855 (N.N., 2020), and choleric
plague in London, England in 1848 (Berk, 2020).
Bubonic Plague in China changed sewer and sewage
settings in building and outdoor interiors.
Furthermore, whitewashed walls and white ceramics
settings that have a neutral tone became the trend to
put more sunlight (Haryati, 2020). London choleric
plague changed textiles in the interior (at wall, sofa,
and curtains) into ceramics. Textiles that porous
considered had high potential to gathered viruses and
bacteria. Ceramic, on the other hand, has smooth and
nonporous characteristics, easy to clean, and is
durable to put into public area settings (Berk, 2020).
Learning from history, designers predicted
permanent change because of COVID-19 (Berk,
2020). Compact and single-unit building mass will