When the streets are empty, the sidewalks intact and the shutters hanging, the town is lost. When businesses close, offices move away and economic activity declines, the mechanisms that make a town work become inactive. Space and vacant land are perceived as “failed,” reflecting urban and economic decline. Emptiness, however, includes the hope of opportunity and change. When urban voids are at the breaking point of transformation, what happens in the meantime?
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A space is one of the most significant architectural typologies we know in our lives. Serving largely as a vital personal space, a home represents security, ownership, and a sense of respite from the rest of the world. It is also traditionally a routine position, where we start and end our day, following the same patterns in the other rooms of a space we use. We can expect to sleep in our rooms, relax in a living room, cook in a kitchen, and eat in a dining room.
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Covid has been especially hard on cities: downtown business districts are still suffering from the shift to remote management; some cities have experienced population declines; and crime has got higher almost everywhere. In addition, the pandemic has caused more people to take cars, which has slowed the movement of the streets. After years of progress, cities like New York have seen an increase in pedestrian deaths. This is a national problem, with one notable exception: Jersey City recently announced that no one will die on its city’s streets by 2022, in accordance with its Vision Zero plan for the city. This landmark is the result of years of painting by the city and its partner, Street Plans, an urban planning firm founded by Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia. A DPZ alumnus and co-author of the 2015 Tactical Urbanism eBook (currently in the process of being updated), Lydon began working with Jersey City on a variety of projects six years ago. I spoke to Lydon last week and asked him, specifically, how he and the town were doing.
As the world slowly adapts to the “new normal,” so does the architecture industry. Data on the length of the market place and paint loads show that the race continued to grow even after the outbreak of the pandemic. Other statistics show how architects are beginning to be affected by the existing crisis, such as the decline of full-time paintings and emerging unemployment. If those statistics can lead to depression (or excitement), there’s more to the numbers: mobility, virtual and managerial skills frame the career in the 2020s. Not as knowledge that allows the industry to dominate the market and retain talent, but also as methods of dealing with crises and technologies in the long term.
Public fitness and the built environment have a long intertwined history, which has catapulted to the spotlight amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The global crisis has made us all aware of how design, whether compromised medical buildings or other types of buildings, can help our ability to respond to physical emergencies and our daily well-being. The other people most sensitive to this issue are a niche organization of architecture and design professionals who also have medical expertise.
The first Monday of October of the year marks World Architecture Day and World Habitat Day. Held simultaneously, both seek to shed light on construction and its demanding situations, addressing another topic with a new edition. This year, through its World Architecture Day, the UIA focuses on “Architecture for Well-being”, in line with the 2022 designation of the UIA Year of Design for Health in Buildings and Cities. In parallel, the United Nations World Habitat Day focuses on “Mind the Gap. Leave No One and Place Behind”, examining the challenge of developing inequalities and demanding situations in villages and human settlements, due to the crises of the triple “C”: COVID-19, climate and conflict.
Introducing Urban October, 31 Days to Promote a Better Urban Future, World Architecture Day and World Habitat Day promote debates on urban sustainability. Joining the verbal exchange every year, ArchDaily participates in this instance through the sale of content that addresses the main objectives of this day, raising awareness, presenting solutions, engaging the external network and “giving all of us who make architecture a truth to create a higher quality of life”.
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March 20, 2020: I’m in New York, “the epicenter of Covid-19”, the television news attends to continue playing, as if I were proud of the feat. New York has been excessive, why not now? More cases, more hospitalizations, more ICU admissions, more intubations, more deaths. The news is terrifying and at the same time in total contradiction with the daily life of the city, which has become so strangely quiet, so peaceful. No traffic, no noise from structures, no annoying car alarms, no random screams in the middle of the night. Even ambulances are usually silent with no cars to fight.
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“Sick Architecture” opened its doors on May 5 at the CIVA in Brussels. Co-curated by Beatriz Colomina, the exhibition explores the intrinsic dating between architecture and disease. The architectural discourse is woven through the theories of the frame and the brain, the construction architect as a type of doctor and the consumer as the patient. Architecture has been portrayed as a form of prevention and cure for thousands of years. However, architecture is also occasionally the cause of disease, from the establishment of hospitals to poisonous construction fabrics and bad construction syndrome. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted this issue.
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Doreen Adengo, Ugandan architect and pioneer, passed away on July 22 this year, after battling a long illness. She founded Adengo Architecture, a studio founded in Kampala. A designer who studied in the United States, worked in corporations in New York, Washington and London, and taught at Uganda Martyrs University, her legacy is nothing short of extraordinary. It is a legacy that spans disciplines and geographies, but also a legacy deeply rooted in the context of Africa, Uganda and Kampala.
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Whether it’s a small balcony, access to a green area or a personal lawn, the outdoor area has become a privilege for many, especially at the dawn of the Covid-19 pandemic and the multiple periods of lockdown that followed. The city’s green areas are under constant threat, especially as governments seek to increase housing density to meet a developing call for suburban development. As a result, lawn and access to green/outdoor areas have declined in recent times, as priorities lie in housing as much as possible, challenging favorable features such as access to outdoor areas in residential developments.
In terms of living conditions, the lack of access to these spaces presents apparent inequalities, revealed periods of confinement and restrictions due to the pandemic. Spaces and had their own gardens/outdoor spaces were very lucky in the sense that they could enjoy a detail from the outside. .
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In the context of the pandemic, where several businesses were forced to close temporarily, cinemas around the world are among the hardest hit. More than two years later, the lingering effects of COVID-19 are still present, marking a turning point in the classic cinematic experience. But while attendance is still nowhere near pre-pandemic levels, some segments of viewers enjoy the benefits of the giant screen, comfortable seating, large speaker systems, and cinema refreshments.
Public spaces play a vital role in organizing the life of each community, however, defining what differentiates them from other spaces in the city is not a simple task. Once these spaces begin to settle in the collective memory of local communities, they become key elements that concentrate the intellectual symbol of a city. Although this process often occurs with urban spaces, remote monuments and architectural elements can also mark the urban life of an area. So what happens when dramatic events like fires, wars, or even the pandemic replace this symbol?
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As cities continue to grow and daily realities are rapidly replaced, other people turn to new and ever-evolving tactics to maintain their well-being. While the promotion of active lifestyles has been the focus of attention of many urban planners and architects, parks or gyms/sports) with the aim of helping human comfort and health, recent times have shown that those amenities coveted by the public cannot be accessible.
The solution is as transparent as day. In fact, if those days you don’t dedicate yourself to it, you probably see those around you running out of the house or even the office. Workplaces have also adapted their interior spaces, having spaces and devices intended for those who want it. to take a break from work.
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To honour the losses caused by the pandemic over the past two years, a transient national monument will be built at Bedworth Miners’ Wellness Park in England from May 21-28. Designed by artist David Best, Sanctuary will serve as a strong symbol of catharsis. and rebirth for the entire community, giving them the opportunity to mourn the losses from the pandemic by writing messages or leaving memories on the walls of the facilities, which will then burn on the last day.
The Global Finance ranking of the world’s most productive cities to live in 2022 has just been published. Focusing on 8 other parameters that calculate and compare the quality of life of other people living in urban spaces, such as economy, culture, population, environment, etc. , this year’s edition also took into account Covid-19 deaths consistent with thousands per country, to reflect the new truth in which we live. With knowledge of the Global City Power Index, Johns Hopkins University, Statista and Macrotrends, the list searches to get a complete picture, combining classic metrics with new factors.
London, UK, claims the most sensitive place, a city that, despite not achieving a high rating on its Covid-19 measures, is still in the most sensitive place on the list, basically for its scores in culture, accessibility and population. growth. Tokyo decided for the moment in the position, appearing a weakness in one parameter, the population, since their numbers have decreased in the last 10 years. Shanghai remained in third position due to a low number of Covid-19 deaths and a strong population. growth. Singapore and Melbourne came here in positions 4 and 5.
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With the scale and urgency of the rapid Covid-19 crisis around the world, efforts have focused on saving lives, rather than similar considerations to the path to net 0 carbon. The net carbon 0 for the structure is explained as when the amount of carbon emissions relevant to the structure of a structure and its final touch is 0. A power structure 0 shall have a total net power consumption of 0; The total amount of energy used annually through the structure is equivalent to the amount of renewable energy produced on site.
As the climate emergency presents itself as a serious and existential threat, the path to net-zero carbon resumes on a large scale, both architecturally and commercially. Around the world, renewed efforts have been made to try to take on the almost inconceivable. According to the State of Buildings and Construction 2019 report, the buildings and structures sector accounted for 36% of final energy intake and process-related carbon emissions in 2018. Although carbon emissions were temporarily reduced at the height of the pandemic, they are set to temporarily return to previous numbers.
As the city continues to evolve and transform, dead edges begin to emerge in the urban landscape, cutting off the point of activity in our built environment. These ‘blind spots’ refer to spaces that lack active engagement, remain empty and without people, as they are no longer provided as useful or attractive. As the Covid-19 pandemic comes to an end, the first challenge we would possibly face after the pandemic is to revive our urban environment. A kiss of life in a tired and overcome urban landscape. .
Central to creating an active and healthy urban environment is accumulating energy through the creation of places. Create varied and engaging places to live, thrive, and work. Here are five regenerative methods that liven up the cityscape and ultimately produce flexible environment.
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Metropolitans are proud of their historical cultural sites, chroniclers of intellectual knowledge and architectural achievements. While those icons revel in their ornate design, immersive grandeur, and dramatic acoustics, the pandemic has plenty of demanding situations to play by the rules.
Recognizing adjustments in attendance rituals to functionality, from procession and gathering to engagement, architects and cultural leaders are designing the next generation of functional spaces while asking: How does architecture solve the upheavals that arise through a building’s inherent function?Is it imaginable to maintain the essence of a position through slight but effective adjustments in people’s habits?The answers seem to lie in updating the auditorium culture (which dates back to the Colosseum) with fresh design responses rooted in new technologies.
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