Urban Residence Response to Covid-19: apartment building redesign to decrease secondary transmission risk and maintain life satisfaction
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Architecture and planning beyond sustainability, MSc
Publicerad
2021
Författare
Shi, Yunbai
Zeng, Xue
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During the pandemic of Covid-19, the residential
building is a critical part of the quarantine life, where people stay in
for the longest time. The frequent close contact within households and sharing
common space in residence leads to concerns about disease transmission in
residential buildings. Meanwhile, the function of housing as a building type
has been profoundly changed by the current state of remote working and
studying. Furthermore, quarantine life with limited outdoor activities also
brings the problem of social isolation and
mental stress. The built environment of a residence can strongly impact people’s
daily life and health conditions. Such leads to how people could be satisfied
with their domestic life while avoiding secondary transmission in residence.
This thesis investigates the infectious disease and remote working situation
impact which spaces and behaviors the most in both apartments and
apartment buildings. The project locates in Gothenburg’s context. The research
includes a literature study, a case study on spatial strategies, and questionnaires
focusing on residents’ experience. The research specifies districts with the
highest infected cases reported and targets the apartment building within the
most populated area as the subject.
The study leads to a redesign of existing living spaces, aiming to decrease the
risk of secondary transmission of COVID-19 in the apartment building
and maintain the dwellers’ life quality in pandemic outbreaks and remote working
conditions. The design responds to the COVID-19 restrictions on the building
scale and creates a safer common area in residence. When, on an apartment unit
scale, it answers how the households can live with multiple people working at
home or with an infected person in the same apartment. The design is a resilient
and adaptive solution for residence coping with the pandemic.
Suppose the concluding design approach visualizes how it may reduce the spread
of the virus in Swedish households. This may inform future Swedish building
regulations and industry standards. This knowledge can be valuable for
further research on pandemic-respond architectural design.
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Covid-19, secondary transmission, apartment building , redesign, remote working