Materiality in a Post-COVID-19 World


Products with natural germ-repelling properties—like certain woods and copper—and those with textures that help avoid bacterial growth will be common materiality considerations for commercial interiors specification following the COVID-19 pandemic.. Image Courtesy of Marin Architects

Products with natural germ-repelling properties—like certain woods and copper—and those with textures that help avoid bacterial growth will be common materiality considerations for commercial interiors specification following the COVID-19 pandemic.. Image Courtesy of Marin Architects

In this week’s reprint from Metropolis, Amanda Schneider, president of ThinkLab, the research division of SANDOW, explores how “designers can help create healthy, safe interiors with thoughtful surface and filtration selections”. Asking how we can have sanitized surfaces, without having to deep clean them regularly, the author discusses the materiality of healthy safe interiors.

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