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Schoolbus Mobile Testing Unit

Perkins & Will, USA | Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Denmark | Arup Group, Denmark
https://www.bdcnetwork.com/blog/global-design-firms-collaborate-new-covid-19-mobile-testing-lab-bring-testing-vulnerable

Diagram outlining the urgent need for testing facilities that are accessible to underserved communities regardless of their financial or transportation restrictions
Underserved and high risk communities have less access to healthcare and testing. Retrofitted school buses combined with mobile app access can provide a scalable and cost-effective solution for mobile testing. Mobile and accessible innovations are necessary in eliminating the disproportionate care underserved communities are experiencing. This not only provides a solution for testing in times of COVID-19 but could be adapted in the future for different uses to provide better healthcare services and much needed access to resources.

Hyper-Local Micro-Markets

Rotterdam, Netherlands, Shift Architecture Urbanism
https://www.shift-au.com/projects/hyperlocal-micromarket/


A new focus on neighborhood markets is a proposal being tested in Rotterdam but the project’s simplicity and ability to be easily reproduced will allow it to be easily applied universally. Hyper-local micro-markets present a new opportunity to utilize outdoor public space and create pop-up market opportunities that can help establish social distancing as normal behavior and something we can embrace rather than resist. By creating markets that serve local populations, this cultural shift may promote small businesses to grow around these spaces and create a higher incentive to invest in your own neighborhood rather than supporting large corporations that do not live within and support these small communities. It also promotes more sustainable means of acquiring fresh produce by promoting urban farming to reduce the costs of transporting these goods and ensuring the people are receiving produce directly off the plant.

The Post-Pandemic Hotel

London, UK, The Manser Practice
https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/british-architecture-firm-proposes-a-plan-for-an-ideal-post-pandemic-hotel/

"No Contact Hotel Check-in
The post-pandemic hotel in the immediate future may focus on contactless interactions between guests and staff, clean spaces, one-way walkways, and health check-ins. Technology will play a larger role in checking in and out of hotels, navigating the space and services. In the long-term rethinking structurally the layout of hotels may be needed to assure safety. This may include different guest travel patterns within the hotel, remote room delivery, re-introducing the paternoster, an elevator system from the 20th century, and expanded rooms to include exercise and work nooks. Thinking further The Manser Practice even envisioned a “quarantine hotel” with self-sufficient “utility pods” for travelers stuck in foreign countries during a pandemic.

VIRTUAL WORK FOREVER

US, Twitter

Google, as well as many other tech companies, have recently invested heavily into making a work campus that encourages workers to stay on campus. This change to virtual working would be a direct change in that view.

Twitter has decided to turn the short-term necessity of virtual working into a permanent option. This will increase flexibility, preparedness and scalability for the company as well as for individual employees, who balance work and family or endure long commutes in general. It could be a major step towards what the future of work may look like.

DATA VISUALIZATION EDUCATING PUBLIC

Purdue University, USA
https://www.businessinsider.com/video-how-cough-particles-spread-virus-in-airplane-cabin-coronavirus-2020-4?r=US&IR=T

This visualization from Purdue University shows how tiny invisible droplets from a single cough can flow through the cabin of a Boeing 767 passenger jet. The model is based on the assumption that the 2003 SARS virus was airborne. Airlines spent weeks touting the safety of flying and their steps against the coronavirus, passenger cabins still pose a danger for the spread of infectious diseases, experts said. It is a problem of biology, physics and pure proximity, with airflow, dirty surfaces and close contact with other travelers all at play.