Pandemic
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about pandemic
Project • By Daniel Canda & Asociados • Offices
OSPAÑA Obra Social Headquarters
Carrying out a commission for a Social Institution reconsiders the role of the architect, since the client represents a group of people who give him power to ensure services for the community.
Javier Agustin Rojas
Javier Agustin Rojas
Flexibility, flexibility, flexibilityWhen the project began, there was only one certainty: that when the building was finished, the program would already have changed. The institution was in the process of growing, and that was a fact. It was then decided to work with a free-plan structural scheme until reaching a system of porticos between party walls with high-rise beams. Releasing the width of the plan, the depth of the scheme remained to be resolved, for which a strategy of sequencing spaces fro... More
Project • By Conjuntos Empáticos • Art Galleries
Present-Pasts for an Emotional Context
To define a position in a context that we all hope will be transitional is very difficult, even though we have a strong feeling that it will bring about a change in our lives, whether clinical, material, procedural or socially. This is further compounded by the fact that our own understanding is evolving as the months go by, so the proposal that won this curatorial opportunity in September 2020 will probably not be the same as the one explained today, in March 2021, or the one that will finally be exhibited in May this year. And yet, as good creatures of habit, it is our hope that life will go back to what it was before the pandemic, or at least something similar.
We believe that architecture today should be interpreted as a social... More
Project • By HLW International • Hospitals
Project Héroe
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to our world unprecedented change and disruption. Very few could have imagined how drastically this global health crisis would change not only our social and economic landscape, but every corner of our daily lives. A year after the initial wave of the virus, individuals and communities alike are still suffering heavily from this pandemic, despite widespread mitigation measures from face masks and social distancing to total shutdowns and stay-at-home mandates. Even the vaccine rollout has been plagued by challenges, including widespread misinformation, technological failings, and supply shortages –– not to mention, new strains of the virus that may render current offerings ineffective. How did we get... More
Project • By NEAR project • Coasts
Cube 19
The emergency from COVID-19 has changed the spaces where we live. Cube 19 is a new way of reinterpreting beach life by putting customer safety at the forefront while offering a cost-effective solution, valid for any type of beach and anywhere in the world.
Cube 19 was designed to make the beach experience safe. The starting point of the project is the layout of the circulation and the distance between the umbrellas.
Entrance, exit and use of the beach are organized according to horizontal and vertical paths. Vertical circulation (entrance and exit) is regulated through one-way walkways 1.5 m wide. The 3-meter-wide horizontal circulation is divided by a low separator, obtaining two directions. Access to the individual units is arranged acc... More