The corona virus currently dominates the headlines in all media. If the fears of the doctors prove to be true, then there will be many infections among the population. In connection with the virus, questions also arise from labor law and with a view to existing architectural and construction contracts.

Cant agree more dear Usama. Yet, I am still interested in the new paradigm. the era after coronavirus. It seems to me we will shake the status quo in every single aspect of our lives including architecture and urbanism.

Beatriz Maturana Cossio

Not doubt it is an excellent question and wholistic! as it attempts to instigate a discussion about the paradigm -- the notions of resilience, agility, and of course sustainability are part of that paradigm and will change -- from architecture to cities and from practice to education/pedagogy all will change. and from crises management to cultural values -- No doubt the spatial and sensory experience will be re-considered in the new era or paradigm...

Currently I am completing an opinion piece and will share it here once published.

Also, the Scottish funding council for science and research has issued a call mostly for medical sciences -- but there is a defined area related to architecture and urbanism --- livability.....

At the end, since we do not know anything and whether this is a temporary phenomenon or will take its natural course and become longer term or even seasonal ,... we might end up seeing all these discussions about post COVID-19 irrelevant. Time will tell...

Amid all the suffering, COVID-19 has shown that - especially in the more developed world - we can often make do via digital means, with less new buildings and infrastructure. When we emerge from the crisis and plan the smart city of the future, we need to challenge the need for more massive office towers, shopping centres, university facilities, etc. In my article published by Emerald on eve of the crisis, I sought to show a way forward...perhaps even more relevant now. Less new building floor area, and less material consumption of all kinds, coupled with better use and adaptation of existing stock, may also help us achieve net zero carbon. https://emeraldopenresearch.com/articles/2-2/v2

You may find following link useful. Please use citation as:

Roy, M & Ghosh, M (2020, March 25). How COVID-19 is reshaping our physical space.

The Times of India. Retrieved from

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/how-covid-19-is-reshaping-our-physical-space/articleshow/74818336.cms

Such multi-disciplinary focused action is long overdue. Principally due to marked improvement in human sanitation systems over the past 200 years or so, our species has mainly escaped pandemics. However, with burgeoning humans population, increasing and socio-spacial inequitable densities, particularly in urban settlement, we have been living on borrowed time. COVID-19 is another warning of our need to formulate and implement much better solutions to both our growing encroachment on natural ecologies and our design of human settlements.

Despite my belief that the current global crisis (COVID-19) poses a challenge at all levels, including architecture and urban planning, it will take a long time to develop a model that can be followed in the future to reduce the risks arising from a similar pandemic, I started with a research proposal on the subject and tried to formulate it objectively. I will publish it as soon as it completed

In my opinion, an unprecedented global alliance will be formed and the circle of global enemies will be reduced.

I think we're going to see some kind of borderless architecture Perhaps this will lead to architectural education.

Let's start with a simple diagram/sketch.

As the built environment is none but the physical projection of a given culture, and the global pandemic has a significant impact on the global culture and habits, hence, I definitely agree with Dr. Ali that our design practice will change! How radical this change will occur?..... this is an open question!

yes surely , but as I think precise data is needed to be evidences for our strategies of design I think still now there are many of opacity envision .

Art and architecture have always followed their own path throughout history and need no human control, we just have to keep up with the times and come up with new ideas. I think a new ideology is emerging, and I hope that there will be more solidarity between people all over the world, and that this year the governments of the United States, Britain, France and other bad countries will no longer destroy the world.

Definitely. This pandemic is offering a great opportunity to boost changes in cities, and its the role of planners and designers to guide them for a better quality of life. We have to admit that although the crisis is a global issue, I think that changes will occur more at the local level., which adds a burden on local governments. But changes will be subject to the economic conditions, and other factors that will shape those changes.

Urban planning is a permanent process based on data collected through years of research. If the pandemic persists, reappears, then possible moves should be considered. For now, scientific studies have shown an association between low vitamin D concentrations and the incidence of multiple infectious diseases. Most of vitamin D is produced in the skin by sunlight. “As a public health specialist (Umhau, C. John, MD) at the National Institutes of Health, I outlined how a lack of sun-induced vitamin D in the winter and early spring leads to epidemic acute respiratory infections (and this probably includes viruses like COVID-19)” [17]. Earlier research of other scientists, among whom Professor Srđana Čulić, MD, PhD, has written that “Sun deficiency, and thus vitamin D, significantly weakens an individual's immunity and can be a good basis for the epidemic of viral infections, malignant and autoimmune diseases that result from a weak immune system”

We are to think of how to respect more a man - occupant and pedestrian - enabling him to have sufficient sunshine in his apartment and open-air public places.

A simple sketch to remind us!

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/dept-of-design/how-the-coronavirus-will-reshape-architecture

Of course, we have to reflect on the issues of space and the built environment, such as resilience, hygiene, space management, etc.

I cover quite a bit in my newest book, "The City in Need": https://www.springer.com/cn/book/9789811554865

Thank you very much

Of course it provides a comprehensive context in order to scrutinize the reciprocal efficacy of pandemic and the built environment towards a sustainable milieu.