Ergonomics is a vital consideration for space design. In architecture education, ergonomics is usually taught in the design studio with various learning methods such as lecture, demonstration, survey, design exercise etc. This article presents an anthropometric study through a design studio exercise dedicated to learning ergonomic considerations. It presents an anthropometric dataset prepared within the studio exercise for designing lavatory and kitchen spaces. In Bangladesh, there is a scarcity of anthropometric data useful for architecture, therefore some reference standards are consulted in the academic and practical field of architecture to integrate ergonomics in design. The presented dataset can serve as a source data for this purpose. Analysis of the derived dataset also raises questions about the suitability of the commonly practiced reference standards.

Human factors and ergonomics are very important considerations for the built environment. Usually, such issues are taught in the design studio courses in architecture education. Traditional design studio in architecture program follows the ideology of learning by doing. Design studio is more than a physical space, it is a culture with particular focus on one-to-one interaction and lateral learning. This learning program had to be suddenly switched to distant learning mode during the COVID-19 outbreak. Teaching human factors in design studio usually takes thorough exercise for both the instructors and learners, unsurprisingly in the online studio this exercise gets even more challenging. This article portrays the experience of such a challenging task and responses to the emergency situation of online learning. This article is based on participant observation and qualitative analysis of the observation protocols. The experiences can be useful for both designing human factors and distance learning in studio-based programs.