Working with Ariadne Labs and Mount Sinai Hospital, the architecture firm has released a free online guide for rapidly redesigning hospitals to protect health-care workers during the pandemic.
Many in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry have turned their focus to the rapid delivery of health-care facilities, to treat the ill and attempt to stave off the pandemic’s spread.
Though most construction has ceased in response to COVID-19, architects hired for city projects were stunned to get orders last week to stop all ongoing design work.
Designed for medical emergencies and rapid bed expansion, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation Center for Advanced Emergency Response in Chicago offers lessons to hospitals facing the coronavirus pandemic.