Shengran Zheng

What if the infrastructure itself could be inhabitable and provide resources during infectious diseases spread? What if we can create a new system of inhabitable infrastructure located in the city that can protect us during these extreme situations? The impact of epidemics is penetrating through our economics, society, and our body. The city and its public facilities must prepare for it as well. This design project in this thesis study is aimed to exemplify the new idea of inhabitable infrastructure to protect, provide and participate during and after the pandemic. Traditionally, we see infrastructure as a single-used engineering system that provides services and functional support for the operation of a city instead of a social and cultural debate. This thesis has redefined the concept of infrastructure and blurring the boundary between infrastructure and architecture. The three design proposals have fully explored three different types of structural systems and developed into a radical architectural proposal to tackle different aspects of a pandemic.

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