Designing dynamic hospitals for pandemics

Student Works; Design Studio 2020W
Wolfgang E. Lorenz and Gabriel Wurzer (Hrsg.)
{wolfgang.lorenz | gabriel.wurzer} (at) tuwien.ac.at
E259-01 Institute of Architectural Sciences,
Department of Digital Architecture and Planning,
TU Wien
www.dap.tuwien.ac.at/
128 Seiten (21x21cm)
ISBN: 978-3-9504464-9-4
2021, Vienna
contributions by: Rinor Ahmetaj, Giorgia Bonet, Emanuel Bührle, Sefa Abidin Dogan, Philine Flaig, Jehona Gashi, Christian Lehner, Stefan Neischl, Clara Pfaffinger, Gazmend Rashiti, Gabriel Wurzer, Alessandro Zanin
abstract: The design studio "designing a dynamic hospital for pandemics" took place in the winter term 2020/2021 at TU Wien, during the 2nd wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Its goal was to establish novel ways in which hospital architecture can react to a pandemic crisis, mostly in a permanent (built) manner rather than by using temporary measures. As such, the subject was unprecedented in TU Wien's curriculum. New ways of working together had to be established, since TU Wien was closed (everyone worked from the home office) and we did thus not have the usual physical desk crits but rather only ZOOM calls. As a matter of fact, we shifted the medium from presentations, drawings and models to papers, which we thought would give more structure to each and every students' contribution. The outcome is to be found in this collection of working papers.