A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
How Can Architecture Make Communities and Urban Environments More Resilient to Disease?
The thesis outlines a series of risk factors that will increase the frequency and intensity of disease outbreaks in the years to come. As COVID-19 has shown, an outbreak can occur at any time. Architecture can be an agent to help reduce the risk. By creating spaces that prioritize health-giving attributes - through the circulation of airflow, spatial design, biophilic elements, natural light, and selection of the right building materials - architecture can be built for healing, and to support infection control. In the 19th century, cities like London and New York implemented housing reforms to improve the living conditions in tenements and other dwellings. Back then, the incorporation of light, nature, and airflow into a buildings design was seen as a prescription for disease. In recent years, a growing body of research is confirming what the architects and planners from the past deduced from theory and intuition: that the built environment can promote health and well-being, and reduce the public's exposure to such respiratory infections as tuberculosis and COVID-19. Organizations like Mass Design Group and Archive Global have been applying lessons from the past to design spaces of the present with health-giving intent. This thesis examines their work, along with their core strategies. Ultimately, this thesis advances a prescriptive model to shape the built environment to make it healthier and more resilient, and to reimagine how spaces function and operate.
How Can Architecture Make Communities and Urban Environments More Resilient to Disease?
The thesis outlines a series of risk factors that will increase the frequency and intensity of disease outbreaks in the years to come. As COVID-19 has shown, an outbreak can occur at any time. Architecture can be an agent to help reduce the risk. By creating spaces that prioritize health-giving attributes - through the circulation of airflow, spatial design, biophilic elements, natural light, and selection of the right building materials - architecture can be built for healing, and to support infection control. In the 19th century, cities like London and New York implemented housing reforms to improve the living conditions in tenements and other dwellings. Back then, the incorporation of light, nature, and airflow into a buildings design was seen as a prescription for disease. In recent years, a growing body of research is confirming what the architects and planners from the past deduced from theory and intuition: that the built environment can promote health and well-being, and reduce the public's exposure to such respiratory infections as tuberculosis and COVID-19. Organizations like Mass Design Group and Archive Global have been applying lessons from the past to design spaces of the present with health-giving intent. This thesis examines their work, along with their core strategies. Ultimately, this thesis advances a prescriptive model to shape the built environment to make it healthier and more resilient, and to reimagine how spaces function and operate.
How Can Architecture Make Communities and Urban Environments More Resilient to Disease?
J. A. Garofalo (author)
2020
137 pages
Report
No indication
English
Education, Law, & Humanities , Environmental Health & Safety , Health services , Disease outbreaks , Hygiene , Sars , Viruses , Infectious diseases , Covid-19 , Environmental protection , Zoonoses , Antiviral agents , Quarantine , Climate change , Microbiology , Pandemics , Public health , Air pollution , Mers-cov , Personnel management , Therapy , United states
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