Revival of Mankind Post Covid-19
Education
Like every other system, the educational system worldwide has severe effects with the covid 19 pandemic.
As of 28th June 2020, the data of UNESCO has revealed that there have been a closure of schools and colleges in more than 114 countries all across the world. Which has affected more than 1 billion students. Schools were forced to get into digital learning through online classes and other digital resources.
When homes became schools, and screens became blackboards, students had to compromise their learning space. The dislocation has not only affected the quality of education but also the mental health of the pupil.
But to go back to school safely, there is an evident need of redesigning the school environment incorporating plenty of airy, well-ventilated spaces, which are large enough to allow learning and movement around the site to take place while maintaining some sense of social distancing.
The greatest challenge in redesigning schools is that you are dealing with fragile users and the design should be exceptionally sensitive.
Compartmentalization by creating ‘bubbles’ helps in segregation of pupils and lower the risk of mingling with a large number of individuals. Providing outdoor classrooms is also an effective way to provide quality air, ventilation, exposure to sunlight along with ameliorating the mental health of pupils.
Stadium
Stadiums are one of the few which are yet too dealt with the pandemic.
When football matches resumed at the end of last season without spectators, remote viewers had the choice of canned crowd effects, which never get close to matching the spirit of the action.
The question is whether the Post pandemic stadiums can provide the same spirit and energy it had before.
Requirements for preparing a pandemic-safe venue include everything from getting spectators to the ground safely to ensuring socially distanced circulation and seating within the venue, as well as appropriate hygiene measures. This presents a considerable task that will have to accept vastly reduced capacities.
In some ways, the seating is the more straightforward aspect, This can be achieved by creating optimum combinations of different sized ‘bubbles’ of spectators within the seating, as well as safe, one-way circulation routes to and from their seats. Although there is the issue of whether you get people to stay in their seats and bring refreshments to them, or whether, and how, you allow them to circulate to buy food and beverages in the concourse.
Public space
Public space was one of the first aspects of life to assert its importance during lockdown.
People have felt the detrimental effects of social isolation and lack of access to outdoor spaces. You can see the joy on their faces when they are out in public spaces, catching other people’s eyes and smiling and exercising under trees. More than ever, public spaces are used for gatherings and activities.
A global pandemic has compelled via this global experiment in tactical urbanism and shown how a lot nicer our towns and cities can be when liberated from the demands of the automobiles (moving and stationary) but will these changes stick or will put up-pandemic agoraphobia lead us to desert the metropolis centers and retreat to an atomized car-structured future inside the suburbs?
Although post pandemic public spaces exert a need of wider space for social distancing, it has likewise urged us to become more acquainted with our neighbours better, and to more readily utilize (and perceive the worth of) the common and public space accessible to us. Regardless of whether it's the recreation center, the road, the corner or the front, this is breathing room and associate. We are social creatures and, in the present Covid environment (post-Covid appears to be progressively distinct), it's human communication that we want.
This focuses on liveable environments and human-centric design, facilitated through higher, ‘gentle’ density developments.
House
The pandemic has shown us how a single space which we called our home took up multiple functions from being an office space to class room to fitness center to healthcare center and more.
We have become more acutely aware of how well or not our homes empower us to work, to function admirably, care for other people, stay associated with loved ones, and keep healthy and cheerful. The pandemic has into sharper focus the critical importance of homes in gathering both our physical and emotional needs.
Hence there is a need for houses to incorporate more functions in the post pandemic scenario. Introducing wider corridors for flats and reviewing private amenity space and incorporating workspace into layouts, but not within the bedroom because the research we’ve done has indicated that can be negative for mental wellbeing. Instead areas like hallways can be utilized or spaces temporarily closed off. There is the potential for screens or folding walls to close off space for working.
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