COVID CRIBS is a response to a radical shift in our society. We no longer rely on our employers or schools to organize our workspaces, instead gathering what we have at hand and using the spaces available to make areas that are conducive to and reflect how we work. This project pulls back the curtain, looking inside these spaces to reveal the universal and the idiosyncratic. 

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In our isolation, how do we choose to work? What brings us comfort? What do we value most?

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To conduct our study, we asked friends, colleagues and classmates to film their workspaces using smartphones and cameras. These recordings were converted into 3-dimensional meshes using Agisoft. From there, like a game of telephone, we interpreted the meshes into 2-dimensional plans of each workspace. We documented what we found in each workspace, creating charts to highlight the wide variety of objects. We also graphed the overall number of each object across all workspaces to demonstrate that some objects, such as monitors and notebooks, appear with very high frequency, while others, such as game consoles and synthesizers, are unique.

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COVID CRIBS is the result of an independent study conceived and conducted by Martha Kriley, Sarah Grieve, Hideyo Kameda, and David Vasquez through the Masters of Architecture program at UCLA AUD. It was facilitated by Mohamed Sharif. Special thanks to Yara Feghali.