IMPACTS AND TRANSFORMATION OF PUBLIC SPACES DUE TO PANDEMIC
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RITIK MIDDYA (1180100780)
ISHIKA GUPTA (1180100737)
KASHISH REEHAL (1180100745)
The biggest factor that keeps coming up today around COVID-19 and being able to create safe environments is density. When we think about the future of creating public spaces, it's really a matter of how many people are going to be able to be in those spaces at a time.
Historically, pandemics have tended to make some pretty major changes to the landscape of our urban settlements. The famous landscape architect Frederick Law was a big proponent of parks and he talked about parks being the lungs of the city.
public spaces connect neighbourhoods, but the new reality has prompted people to challenge the effect of these spaces on their health and well-being. From the forums, public baths, and amphitheaters of Rome to the courtyards of temple complexes in
Public spaces have been more important than ever before in terms of human protection as well as a place to connect people and offer physical, ethnic, and financial diversity. The aim of the revival of public spaces is to focus on a new innovative vision of the spaces by asking people who use and work in those spaces regarding the associated reuse-value and challenges.
The pandemic provided a unique circumstance for city-scale experiments regarding mobility, while immediate responses showed the transformative power of tactical urbanism. In many cities, the measures meant to ensure social distancing are to be kept in place post-pandemic, paving the path towards recovery with less traffic and more outdoor activities.
Caret Studio installs gridded social-distancing system inside Italian piazza
Italian practice Caret Studio has installed the StoDistante installation in an Italian square to encourage social distancing as a temporary solution for reactivating public spaces after Covid-19 lockdown ends.
The StoDistante installation features a 1.8-metre grid of squares painted onto the cobblestones of Piazza Giotto, a square in the town of Vicchio near Florence, Italy.
The markers act as visual representations of the social-distancing advice circulated by the Tuscan authorities to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus.
Arranged in a gridded formation, the squares get larger the closer to the centre they are. This "gradient" style is designed to offer different perspectives and interactions within the piazza.
"The idea is to create a temporary infrastructure for a new social life, becoming an opportunity to reflect on the use of public spaces during these times." Many designers have been focusing their efforts towards creating concepts that would make life after lockdown safer.
Precht designs Parc de la Distance for outdoor social distancing
The park would have numerous routes divided by 90-centimetre-wide hedges to maintain a safe physical distance between its visitors. Arranging the paths in a finger print-shaped swirl pattern creates many routes that can be used simultaneously.
Each of the red-granite gravel paths through the park would be around 600 metres long and circulate visitors from the edge of the park to the centre, where fountains would be located, and back round. Gates on the entrances and exits to each of the routes, which would take around 20 minutes to walk, would indicate if a route is occupied.
"I see the origin of the design in French baroque gardens," said Precht. "A strong order of plants. Hedges that create geometrical shapes."
"But there is also an inspiration drawn in Japanese Zen-gardens. Circular movements. Raking of gravels that centre around corner stones," he continued.
Although Precht designed the park in response to the current coronavirus outbreak he believes that a social-distance park would be a beneficial environment for cities after the pandemic. Precht believes that following the pandemic people will appreciate outdoor spaces and seek escapism from the bustle of cities more than before.
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