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PUBLIC SPACE, LIVING SPACE MOBILITY | Arjun A D | Nihad P K | Nandha Krishnan
PUBLIC SPACES
Health emergencies resulting from Covid-19 raise delicate questions that rethink urban spaces in terms of preference for greater comfort, safety and a livable sensation. Especially in 2020, we have opened a new era of sociability, so the idea of public space is to undergo a drastic change. New design thresholds should be considered in the dominant factor of social distance, at least initially.
The new normality, social distancing
Just as it is by nature that we are "social animals" to spend time with others and participate in collective experiences, it is also true that a concept such as aggregation can be experienced in a different way. Social distancing is the first line of defense to protect everyone's happiness and health. The hospitality, entertainment, catering and retail sectors will necessarily need to adapt their spaces to comply with the new regulations, while prioritizing the use of materials and equipment that ensure continuous hygiene. . As a result, open and gathering spaces will also have to be redesigned. From smart city to safe city In recent years, the urban agenda has been mainly smart city. Smart Projects has seen us take on an unprecedented digital challenge and bring technology into all urban areas, from public places to footpaths, transportation systems and service realization, in a constant race towards connectivity and technology.
Today intelligence is not enough. The next step we must take is towards a safe city: an urban model in which technology is in active dialogue with the requirements of security and spatial control, in order to restore the sense of peace for the people. Such a new approach would necessarily combine these two concepts, smart and safe, to guide us in town planning. At the macro level of urban growth in general, we should think of multi-centre cities, far from the megacities we are witnessing today. Fully functional cities are spread over several areas to ensure adequate services for residents, avoiding the concentration of all activities in a few central urban areas (education, commerce, services, etc.) local health and welfare services), while promoting a sustainable transport system.
A possible evolution model for sporting venues
We need to rethink the conference room, which includes a dedicated space for sporting events, so that users can easily and safely return and enjoy it. You can think of another management of stricter capillaries, especially at the moment when a large rally is formed, such as when entering or exiting a structure in the case of a sports arena. .. The entrance is split through reservations for different time slots, allowing for thorough control, including body temperature and biometrics, while being programmed and passing through the ticket gates. Once the sporting event is over, you can anticipate small groups and avoid simultaneous exits for all viewers, creating a solution to entertain the spectators at the end of the match. For example, a dedicated app can broadcast the highlights of the game directly. Interviews from the user's device and ordering unique content, food and drinks featuring lead players can be prepared upon arrival at the bars and restaurants inside the sports arena. With this in mind, it is important to have a support space and a quarantine space that can provide many services to people before leaving the place. Complementary features and services are important for the efficient functioning of this system.
It is becoming increasingly important to be able to focus on providing a variety of experiences, including retail, entertainment, museums, catering services, parks, and more. These are all decompression zones, and people can enjoy all in one place without risking consolidation. Providing additional services such as diagnostics and medical assistance from the features that should be available can be interesting for a variety of purposes. Weekdays provide medical activities, ensure the safety of the audience and make use of the structure during the event. If there is a need to provide strategic assistance to the hospital, in an exceptional medical emergency, to the reception center as needed. To ensure the safest and most informative experience possible, the decision to open the venue with a limited number of users cannot be excluded, at least initially allowing them to sit at a minimum safe distance.
LIVING
An open ecosystem
The home of the future will be different: it will be a fluid, dynamic landscape that is constantly evolving, rather than a simple construction product. We need to think of it as an open ecosystem, an extrovert community, reaching out to a potentially inaccessible outside world. This need is supported by data.Simply in Italy in the previous month, the worth of properties with an overhang/patio or yard has gone up by 8% and, by similar token, the ones without outside living have gone down. Having noticed new practices (and done it without anyone's help) in the previous weeks, we have seen another utilization of all dissemination spaces - arrivals, galleries, walkways have become augmentations of day by day living. This characteristic colonization of lingering spaces addresses a natural advancement of living.
The level base of the structure can be the base to improve personal satisfaction. Indeed, even walkways, flights of stairs, decks, and parking garages can be put like common living spaces, subsequently speeding up the inescapable selection of arrangements that have been examined for a long time, like metropolitan nurseries and biological frameworks. The living space should have the option to extend naturally and develop as per the flood of individuals who live in it. Innovation can help you complete the whole interaction, from wanting to develop. We can envision structures as machines that are continually changed by coordinating measured constructions, inherent better places, can be gathered and dismantled, and can be joined. We can at long last make the forecasts of "Engineering" and the vision of Cedric Price, and this is failed to remember more for social reasons than for specialized restrictions.
A digital ecosystem
In the primary seven day stretch of constrained seclusion, the advanced universe saw an abrupt force focused on the home living climate, which turned into the lone spot of living, working and diversion. This speed increase will work with the appropriation and incorporation of innovations, making another culture of advanced living that until the present time struggled tracking down its own character. We won't allude to it as domotics, but instead of reasonable conditions ready to amplify our physical and mental wellbeing, moving as per our transitory necessities.
With regards to individual wellbeing, we will observe an ascent in telemedicine planned as an arrangement of admittance to wellbeing focuses and medical clinics, a model of locally established medical care networks called center point and talk. The idea of care will advance to an idea of "taking consideration", setting solid thoughtfulness regarding every one of the boundaries that influence our health - air and water quality; warm, lighting and acoustic solace; and sustenance.
Inside our new domestic ecosystem, we will have to plan the use of different spaces, for different moments and in different ways. Premier this will affect the spatial adaptation: not any more moderate lofts, to offer an approach to more mind boggling spaces both on a level plane and in an upward direction. Our homes can't exhaust us, actually, they need to shock us and engage us, allowing us to play with portable dividers and furniture. From a useful perspective, we should have the option to change work spaces in diversion spaces - vivid projections should fill different needs like watching a film, settling on a gathering decision or travel with increased reality. To these spaces we need to add others for active work, for home nurseries, and an inventive space to allow creative minds to open up any window on the world.
Micro-communities and social networks
While ordinarily we see ourselves as "residents of the world", this isolation has constrained us to associate with the miniature networks made by unconstrained connections. From the windows and galleries of our homes, our interpersonal organization has unexpectedly contracted to the gathering of individuals that we speak with from a short, yet protected, distance. Looking forward, engineering should remember these miniature networks for its ventures, exploiting strategies to create deliberate, extra and quantifiable social contact with the goal to reinforce collaboration, association and empowerment of nearby networks.
Discussing social effects, we can't restrict our activities for change to the private area. The public area, at the city and territorial level, will bear an essential job in assisting these changes, compensating through tax breaks or less administration, a recovery of existing resources towards the production of normal and public quality spaces. At a public level, a similar objective should be carried out by putting a large number of void structures available, supporting better approaches for living simultaneously. Simply in Europe, as per an examination of the British paper The Guardian, there are 11 million vacant and unused homes. A further chance could be recognized in the transformation of vacationer as well as inn structures, as of now unused, into themed living or co-living spaces focused towards a particular portion of the populace. Indeed, even the sharing economy, which has quickly slowed down, will at that point recover its solidarity in the medium term.
The symbolic power of architecture
On the metropolitan scale, we can't fail to remember how the engineers' mantra over the most recent ten years was just one: urbanization. There is a decent possibility that the pandemic will return this pattern. This will affect the home, or where we will choose to live. To see our unfilled urban areas, apparently dead, has imparted new life into the mission of engineering to make social personality - we are our urban communities, our road and our landmarks.
MOBILITY
The temporary suspension of mobility systems across the world emphasizes humanity's footprint on the earth and, more importantly, the strong effect it is having on the climate.
Indeed, the results of the Coronavirus lockdown's blocking mobility can be seen in the atmosphere and in the emissions table.
Three changes towards sustainable mobility
In three regions, a systemic change for mobility is currently possible to imagine. The first is the change of our vehicles from internal combustion to electric engines; the second is the enhancement of micro mobility, especially active mobility; and the third is the effect of reduced travel thanks to digital connectivity.
Encourage Electric-Mobility
Planning a radical and rapid shift towards electric mobility is a matter
of urgency because the current exploding growth rate of the population is matched by an extraordinary growth in the number of vehicles Worldwide.
Since the vast majority of the country is growing its reliance on the car.In the short and medium term, devising a solution for an immediate and noticeable reduction in car use seems to be completely impractical and must be ensured at all costs.As a result, it is critical to switch to electric mobility,especially in light of evidence that the lockdown period resulted in a significant reduction in environmental pollution.The government and businesses in this field would need to develop enormous investment plans in favor of electric vehicles.
Enhance Micro-Mobility
The second point is about pedestrians and cyclists' micro mobility. In the postwar years, cities that were once only accessible by foot and bicycle gradually became engulfed by automobiles. The urban environment has become increasingly extroverted in favor of the automobile over time: pavements have narrowed, pedestrian crossings have been eliminated, and so on.
In the post-covid year, we must reclaim those spaces for people and improve the quality of their lives and health by overlapping the existing road network,a new generation of infrastructure to facilitate and enhance micro mobility.
The progressive spatial redistribution on an urban scale in favor of sustainable modes, a comprehensive and widespread system of crossings which favor the desired lines,comfort and safety of soft mobility increases demand for bicycle and pedestrian mobility.
Enhancing Digital Connectivity to reduce the Travel
The third challenge, which is the most difficult but also the most exciting, is the gradual reduction of the need to travel as digital communication improves. It will need to rely on a modern infrastructure network, and fast network connectivity.
It is important to consider a new age of digital communication that goes beyond the existing video conference framework, which is extremely outdated as compared to the degree of connectivity provided by a typical online game console.
As immersive technologies advance, it would be possible to imagine productive meetings with articulated communication, even if they are virtual: the so-called "digital handshake.".
A shift to virtual reality will have far benefits for companies in terms of cost savings, such as office space and reduced travel needs and increased productivity as well.
THE FIFTH SEASON | Mohit Upadhyay | Namitha M A | Rayes Anna Benson
COVID-19 - A Seasonal Phenomenon
Introduction
The prophetic warning by the Nobel Laureate Joshua Lederberg that “the microbe
that felled one child in a distant continent can reach yours today and seed a global
pandemic tomorrow” has once again proved its relevance with the emergence of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as the latest pandemic that is affecting
human health and economy across the world.
We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United
Nations — one that is killing people, spreading human suffering, and upending
people’s lives. But this is much more than a health crisis. It is a human, economic
and social crisis. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which has been
characterized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), is attacking
societies at their core.
The recent Covid-19 pandemic has had significant psychological and social effects
on the population. Research has highlighted the impact on psychological well-being
of the most exposed groups, including children, college students, and health
workers, who are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety,
depression, and other symptoms of distress. The social distance and the security
measures have affected the relationship among people and their perception of
empathy toward others.
Research references
Studies show that SARS-CoV-2 ,the virus that causes COVID-19 may behave like
many other coronaviruses that circulate more widely in fall and winter.
To find out if that could be true, researchers analyzed COVID-19 data including
cases, death rates, recoveries, testing rates and hospitalizations from 221
countries. The investigators found a strong association with temperature and
latitude.
One may conclude that the disease may be seasonal, like the flu. This may
become relevant after the vaccine controls these first waves of COVID-19. This
concept is supported by the fact that even after the year round effort by mankind
to suppress the virus and to find its vaccine, new variants seem to be coming into
picture at almost the same time of the year.
[SOURCE: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, news release, Jan. 27, 2021].
Revival of Mankind in Seasonal Pandemics
Taking into consideration the current scenarios and studies, the theory that might
arise in the future years is that “ Pandemic scenarios such as Covid-19 or similar
ones may become a frequently occurring seasonal phenomenon , but mankind
and architecture will learn to evolve,adapt and survive in these catastrophic
situations.
Architecture can turn out to be an ever evolving scenario where it has to cater
two contrasting scenarios-To the season of pandemic and To the Non-pandemic times.
It answers the basic needs of people and manifests the characters of society.
It connects our consciousness to the reality settings that interplays with the
presence and the transience. The image of it suggests daily matters that evidence
the passage of time. It is the background of our narratives of life. To most extent,
practising architecture is a journey of self-recognition.
Architecture is inhabited: sequences of events, use, activities, incidents are always
superimposed on those fixed spatial sequences. These are the programmatic
sequences that suggest secret maps and impossible fictions, rambling collections
of events all strung along a collection of spaces, frame after frame room after
room, episode after episode.’
[Source:Tschumi (2012), P.61]
Architecture might need to amplify the current conditions of the neighbourhoods
to address interacting social activities when there is no pandemic and restrict
them whenever a new pandemic arises.
Interpretation of poster
The poster explores a narrative technique, parallel narrative, into spatial design
theory. It transforms the background of daily matters: incidents, encounters, and
the transiences that define our memories and identities as the foreground to reveal
the notion of presence and self-awareness when a person is forced to isolate
themselves within a closed environment.
The poster also becomes a reflection of the normal times[non-pandemic times]
showcasing different aspects of the place with events, movement, the transience
and building grid etc., which the data are superimposed into a secret map that is
distinct from the visual settings but presents our perception of the space.
These cyphers are then translated into volumetric settings to amplify the existing
events and spatial social interactions.
This contrast in spatial design and architecture helps to support the dwindling
extremes of human behavior and psychological needs. On one hand, the
architecture helps to sustain the peace of mind during isolation, on the other, it
also helps to amplify the social interactions and stand back in a minimalist nature.
Hence we can expect a redefinition of proxemics theory. [ Edward T Hall].
Conclusion
There can be an urban movement yet contributed by a series of discontinuous
structures with a focal view of the factions of the very tiny or invisible elements
within spaces. The poster hence reflects the philosophical aspect of architectural
changes that might occur in the near future. Indeed, if the nature of space is
interpreted, architecture shall follow fiction.
THE MISTY PLACEBO | Sanathan MSSS | Yashwanth T | Sarvani Perla
KEYWORDS:
• Architectural Healing
• Healthy Cities
• Medical Architecture
• Behavioural Health
ABSTRACT
What’s faster than Light? Imagination. Fast enough to zoom into the post-pandemic world and take a peek at how
the world changed its face. The Global COVID 19 Pandemic is a multi-layered catastrophe of the era. The death
toll and economic blow on the country are just the surface effects. Below the tip, we find the deteriorated mental
health of the masses and weakened overall nation's immunity levels. A study of COVID-19 patients has found
that they lose protective immunity within two to three months of recovery, which makes them vulnerable for
other infections easily. The lockdown, which lasted for more than a year, has affected the nation's morality and
has led to an increase in stress, anxiety, and depression among the citizens.
INTRODUCTION
MENTAL HEALTH
The economic penalties of these physical restrictions are almost palpable, but the cultural complications were
mostly overlooked — specifically, how the seclusion and lonesomeness resulting from social distancing will
affect the larger population and their mental well-being. Humans being social animals, cannot sustain long
periods of isolation. Social gatherings trigger our neurological senses of being accepted and a part of the herd.
Physical contacts and conversations face-to-face send in indications of security and trust in our systems, which
were vital for us to sustain this pandemic. But social distancing and lockdown opposing the exact have resulted
in unavoidable mental friction. Scores of doctors have reported a shift in the overall subconscious energies of the
population. Being locked away inside the four walls of their homes has triggered irritation and anger against
family members. Though information communication was essential during these times, constant news updates
about positive cases, death tolls, and suffering made everyone feel insecure, fearful, and nervous. A persistent
dread of finding yourself and your loved ones at the risk of getting infected and worrying about the state’s
exhausted medical infrastructure is enough to send shivers down the spine of a common man. Mental health
has always been an underrated illness in our society, and its shock is now witnessed.
IMMUNITY
A version of the coronavirus that surfaced in Britain late last year was shocking for many reasons. It came just as
vaccines had offered a glimpse of the end of the pandemic, threatening to dash those hopes. It was far more
contagious than earlier variants, leading to a swift increase in hospitalizations. And perhaps most surprising to
scientists: It had amassed a large constellation of mutations seemingly overnight.
Some people with weak immune systems have been known to sustain and transmit the virus over long periods.
And their immunity was noted to deteriorate even after the virus leaves their system completely. The Post Covid
world will suffer from a serious lack of immunity among many. The world has to transform into a healthier
environment, which can enhance immunity naturally.
THE PLACEBO
A placebo is a substance or treatment which is designed to have no therapeutic value. Common placebos include
inert tablets, inert injections, sham surgery, and other procedures. In simpler words, the placebo effect is an
illusion for our subconscious mind. It’s a make-believe setup act to convince your unconscious part of the brain
into believing something which you want to happen. These techniques are closely linked with the Law of
Attraction and the power of subconscious mind concepts. In the medical field, placebo pills are said to have
substantial effects on minor illnesses. In many esoteric teachings, a placebo is extensively used to heal mental
instabilities. Every day, the world around us is used as props to set up a stage that resonates with the desired
reality.
THE SOLUTION
Buildings or built environments have an unexplainable impact on mental health. Especially when nature is
involved in the architecture, drastic change in the overall mood in its residents is noticed. What the Post-Pandemic
world needs are to get back to rudiments. In other words, we need natural exposure. The five elements of nature;
Sunlight, Air, Water, Earth, and Trees are the best doctors for mental health and immunity. But that doesn’t mean
we could leave the comforts of our modern world and shift to a tribal lifestyle. Our cities and towns must be
tweaked into slightly more natural settings.
ARCHITECTURE AS A PLACEBO
An Illusion is needed to cover up our concrete world. A placebo pill that will make us believe we live in a better
environment has to be given through built spaces. Cities that allow immense sunlight and natural ventilation,
natural terrain, and landscape will create an illusion that the residents are living in a natural world. Such change
can improve mental health. Sunlight and fresh air are arguably the finest sources of immunity, especially for
lung-related diseases.
THE THEORY
Wider streets and roads bring in sunlight and wind. Sunlight stimulates vitamin D synthesis in our bodies, which
helps immunity development, and the natural breeze eases out the post-covid trauma on our respiratory systems.
Natural stone, earth, and soil instead of asphalt and concrete can bring in a sense of stability and rootedness in our
minds. We feel safe when being closer to earth as a natural instinct.
Vegetation and flowing water have always seen a pleasing effect on the human mind. Green foliage and texture
simulate a sense of calmness. This may be because caring for plants suppresses sympathetic nervous system
activity and promotes a comfortable, relaxed, and natural feel.
CONCLUSION
This is a theory to get back to rudiments and heal humanity of their pandemic trauma. Medicines or vaccines can
only do a certain damage repair. The whole lifestyle must change. And for the lifestyle to change, our day-to-day
actions, moods, and responses must change. And, because architecture plays a vital role in impacting our everyday
stimuli, a more sensitive approach in spatial design must be adapted. A deeper understanding of nature and
nature-inspired buildings, and their critical analysis shall give positive results. This theory shall lay the foundation
of the post-pandemic world, which shall reignite the hope of mankind’s revival.
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