Designing for distance
An artist's rendering of a site redesign by Community Design Collaborative’s Design SWAT team. (Courtesy of Community Design Collaborative)
"COVID-19 has reclassified many workers as first responders. Doctors, nurses and medical professionals, transit workers, garbage collectors, and grocery clerks all come to mind. Architects do not.
“'People don’t typically think of architects as first responders, 'said Amal Mahrouki, director of legislative affairs with AIA Pennsylvania. 'But they can be…if they’ve gone through the right training.'
"Slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus requires immediate adjustments to how we use and inhabit buildings and space.
"From redesigning schools and offices to allow for socially distanced use to repurposing buildings for medical use and retrofitting existing hospitals to serve the urgent demands of a pandemic, architects and designers are finding themselves facing a new kind of demand."
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