Executive Summary: Regeneration of Functional Flow And Attributes Considering Viral Behavior: A Solution to the post-COVID Health Space Design

Image: Medical College and Hospital Design Functional Analysis, Muhammad Golam Sami & Mahmuda Yasmin Dola'2022

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

During the pandemic, maintaining distance and using different kinds of surgical stuff was mandatory to resist airborne viral diseases and the deposition of nano viral particles in the lungs. But in the post-pandemic world, we must rethink every space we belong to to prevent airborne and other viral susceptibilities. The prevention and measurements could take up different aspects, spatial attributes, and places' individual features. From public places and outdoor spaces to indoor spaces and from single spaces to clustered multiple blocks and spaces should be redesigned according to new spatial syntax. The hospital, one of the riskiest area of viral transmission as well as a backbone for pandemic curing, need to be redefined with new spatial principles.

On the other hand, redesigning institutional programs and syntax will help us to better understand the relationship between public and private space according to proper health design requirements. According to WHO, environmental aspects are one of the vital reasons for the increasing percentage of curability of patients. Other crucial elements include patient occupancy, safety, accessibility, lighting, fire protection signage, parking, and aesthetics.

On the other hand, there are some newly developed and modified post-pandemic requirements for a hospital, such as security risk analysis, new threat awareness, response plans, patient communication, staff training, software implementation, one-way circulation, and dispersed spatial syntax. This project will help to understand the Investigation of space syntax for post-pandemic hospital & institution design, as well as it will conduct the required solutions with the newly invented modification based on viral behavior.

Keywords: space syntax, health design, viral susceptibility, prevention of airborne diseases, Institutional space design

Meet The Authors

Mahmuda Yasmin Dola

B. Arch, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Khulna, Bangladesh Architect | Analytical Practitioner

Head of Construction, ADORA Studios, Bangladesh

CMO & Head of Construction, SS Construction & Power Solution, Bangladesh

Muhammad Golam Sami

B. Arch, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Khulna, Bangladesh Architect | Futurist | Sustainable Design Expert

Operational Head, ADORA Studios, Bangladesh

Founder, samism.org

Lecturer, Department of Architecture

Northern University of Business & Technology

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