Description
In the context of globalisation, one large pandemic crisis could have a severe impact on the economy and the lives of residents around the world. Scales of government from international to local have used resilient city construction as a method of preventing and responding to the impact of the future crisis. Although many studies have looked into urban resilience from different perspectives, most are based on the urban scale. Moreover, most resilience studies in architectural scale are considered from the perspective of climate change, and few are considered as responding to a public health crisis. This article takes the global pandemic as the research background and high-rise buildings as the research object, The purpose is to summarise the resilient design strategies suitable for high-rise buildings to respond to public health crises. The research consists of four parts. Firstly, it discusses the current status of high-rise buildings in China. Taking the Hong Kong cluster infection of SARS in 2003 as an example, it analyses the deficiencies of high-rise building design in the perspective of public health safety in China. Secondly, according to the principles of open building design, the fit-out and FF&E level of buildings can be changed and updated by the needs of users. Based on this principle, The author demonstrates that the internal functions of high-rise buildings can be replaced according to the usage requirements, providing a theoretical basis for the case study analysis. In the third part, six pandemics in the past decades are chosen as cases. Through analysing their response system, the author summarises the city's demands for building functional space during an epidemic: isolation space, supply transfer space and additional medical space. Finally, it is proposed to replace the internal functions of high-rise buildings with the functional space required by the city during the pandemic.| Period | Jul 2020 |
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