Coronavirus Spatial Design Guides

自冠状病毒大流行出现以来，世界各国政府为限制感染的传播，对人员的行动采取了重大限制措施。截至4月初，世界上一半的人口--约39亿人--生活在封锁之下。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。无论是为了经济，还是为了我们的集体福祉，我们的公共共享空间都需要能够重新使用。根据发表在《科学》杂志上的一项研究，到2022年，延长或断断续续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，使其能够以降低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，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。这些指南将作为清晰和直接的指导手册，帮助商店、社区中心、图书馆和其他共用设施有效地适应公共卫生要求。作为建筑师，我们有必要的技能来支持这些适应并就这些适应提供建议。我们是空间设计方面的专家，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范围内以分散的方式提供，特别是在满足公共卫生要求的情况下。这就是这个项目既具有创新性又具有潜在的广泛社会价值的原因。这些指南将被开发为一系列简单易用的指导手册，包括不同空间布局的指南，使人们能够根据自己的特定需求制定指南。它们将作为单独的A4文件制作，便于从在线数据库下载。这种免费的网络传播将使人们能够广泛获得设计指南，这些指南不仅有可能在英国国内而且在世界各地都有好处。随着英国新冠肺炎指南的更新(如引入当地的Covid警报级别和英国国民健康保险制度的检测和跟踪应用)，指南也将更新，以确保它们保持最新和相关性。

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.