Towards an humanitarian architecture for the disaster-risk of respiratory diseases

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, A. Nuno
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/12093
• topic: Arquitectura; Arquitectura Humanitaria; Aquitectura e Pandemia

In the second week of March 2020 Portugal entered a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the national government established a first period of quarantine for the entire country. To overcome the lockdown and keep the academic schedule, universities switched to online classes, although there were little or no previous experiences at all of non-presential classes. In face of unexpected, radical and somehow harmful changes in our cheerful day-to-day lives, we proposed our students (of the first year of the integrated master’s degree in architecture) at the University of Beira Interior (UBI) to engage in the serious societal challenge we were facing. This meant, in case that could make sense, responding to the new coronavirus outbreak through architecture and urban design. [...]