Coronavirus Spatial Design Guides

自冠状病毒大流行出现以来，世界各国政府对人员流动实施了严格限制，以限制感染的传播。截至4月初，全球一半人口——约39亿人——生活在封锁之中。在英国，商店、咖啡馆、图书馆、社区中心、办公室和其他共享空间被迫无限期关闭。我们的公共共享空间需要能够重新使用，这既是为了经济，也是为了我们的集体福祉。根据发表在《科学》杂志上的研究，到2022年，长期或间歇性的社交距离可能是必要的。因此，必须对现有建筑物和空间进行临时改造，使其能够以减轻传播风险的方式运行。该项目将创建一系列免费使用的冠状病毒空间设计指南，以支持公共共享空间的运营商以降低冠状病毒传播风险的方式调整和管理这些空间。这些指南将作为明确和直接的指导手册，根据公共卫生要求对商店、社区中心、图书馆和其他公用设施进行有效改造。作为建筑师，我们有必要的技能来支持和建议这些调整。我们是空间设计的专家，也是人们如何占据和使用空间的专家。然而，建筑服务通常是定制的，虽然有许多建筑师在公共部门工作，但很少有建筑指导在微观尺度上以分散的方式提供，特别是在响应公共卫生要求方面。这就是为什么这个项目既具有创新性，又具有潜在的广泛社会价值。这些指引将会发展成一系列简单易用的指导手册，为不同的空间布局提供指引，让人们根据自己的具体需要制定指引。它们将被制作成单独的A4文件，方便从网上数据库下载。这种免费使用的网络传播将使设计指南的广泛访问成为可能，不仅在英国，而且在全世界都有可能受益。随着英国Covid-19指南的更新（例如引入本地Covid警报级别和NHS测试和追踪应用程序），指南将进行更新，以确保其保持最新和相关性。

Since the emergence of the Coronavirus pandemic significant restrictions on people's movements have been enacted by governments around the world in an effort to limit the spread of infection. Half the world's population -- some 3.9 billion people -- are living under lockdown as of early April. In the UK, shops, cafes, libraries, community centres, offices and other shared spaces have been forced to close indefinitely.Our publicly shared spaces need to be able to return to use, both for the sake of the economy and for our collective wellbeing. According to research published in _Science_, prolonged or intermittent social distancing may be necessary into 2022. It is therefore essential that existing buildings and spaces can be temporarily adapted to enable their operation in a way that mitigates the risk of transmission.This project will create a series of free-to-use Coronavirus Spatial Design Guides, that will support the operators of publicly shared spaces to adapt and manage those spaces in a way that mitigates the risk of Coronavirus transmission. The guides will act as clear and straightforward instruction manuals for the effective adaptations of shops, community centres, libraries and other shared facilities, in response to public health requirements.As architects, we have the skills necessary to support and advise on these adaptations. We are experts in spatial design, and in how people occupy and use space. Architectural services are typically bespoke however, and while there are many architects working in the public sector, it is rare for architectural guidance to be offered in a diffuse manner on a micro scale, particularly in response to public health requirements. That is what makes this project both innovative and of potentially wide-ranging social value.The guides will be developed as a series of simple and easy-to-use instruction manuals, with guidelines for differing spatial layouts, enabling people to enact them according to their own specific needs. They will be produced as individual A4 documents for easy download from an online database. This free-to-use web-based dissemination will enable wide access to the design guides, with the potential for them to be of benefit not just within the UK but around the world.As Covid-19 guidelines are updated in the UK (such as the introduction of the local Covid Alert Levels and the NHS Test and Trace App), the guides will be updated to ensure that they remain current and relevant.