**3. Research hypotheses**

To establish and formulate the motivation and hypotheses, it is necessary to understand how to transform COVID-19 and any future pandemic challenges that may break out any time into learning potentials within architectural, engineering, and environment education through online education workshops, studies, and feedback and applying the lessons learned from the similar past pandemics that led to better design solutions [11–13]. Moreover, in order to achieve adequate design solutions for healthy and more flexible buildings, it is important to establish a set of guidelines to help concerned university students, design teams, and educators on how spaces are designed and shaped and how people using these spaces will interact and behave with the aim of supporting the control and elimination of pandemic risks.

The authors assume three hypotheses, which will be subjected to investigation in this chapter. First, there is a need to create a set of architectural and building guidelines to help concerned university students (i.e., architecture and related engineering disciplines) and support them to overcome difficulties with regard to various design issues and problems as impacted by COVID-19 and/or future similar pandemics as possibilities to their outbreak will continue to occur [3, 10, 14]. Secondly, Building Rules and Regulations need to include guideline clauses on pandemic control within buildings and surrounding environments (i.e., BENAYAT (Building Permit Portal) - Unified Guidebook of Building Permit Regulations – Kingdom of Bahrain – First Edition 2018) [9, 15]. Thirdly, architecture and building engineering can play a vital role in infection prevention and controlling the spread of pandemics within buildings and surrounding environments [5, 16, 17]. The above three hypotheses will take into consideration all or part of the followings categories as deemed appropriate:

