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Julia Rocho, Daniel Paul

Kassel, Germany
We are master students of the University of Kassel in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Julia - born on 09.11.1997 - completed her Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Planning at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg in August 2019. Daniel - born on 30.08.1994 - completed his Bachelor of Arts in Urban Planning at the Technische Ostwestfalen-Lippe in January 2019.

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The Pandemic Space


Pandemic Perfectness in Public Parks

The Pandemic Space


Pandemic Perfectness in Public Parks
The project shows the effects of the corona pandemic on the most everyday situations in public open spaces, which in some cases leads to absurd encounters due to the consistent application of the 1.50 m distance regulation in Germany.
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  • Site-specific cases

The corona pandemic affects the most common situations through the introduction of the 1.50 m minimum distance regulation. Since every person has an individual space requirement it is not easy to keep the distance. In order to record spatial changes in concrete drawings, various encounters and activities of differently acting persons were investigated with the aim of showing a behaviour that is as pandemic-proof as possible.

The result are partly abstruse scenarios, which hardly work in reality. On the basis of the analyses, concrete design approaches were developed that make it possible to react to such exceptional situations without too much effort during a pandemic.

As a testimony to the times, a portfolio has been created that can be seen as a guideline for a further pandemic with regard to public open space, but can also be understood as a cynical criticism of the impossibility of implementing some regulations and recommendations.



The Pandemic Space


Pandemic Perfectness in Public Parks

The Pandemic Space


Pandemic Perfectness in Public Parks
The project shows the effects of the corona pandemic on the most everyday situations in public open spaces, which in some cases leads to absurd encounters due to the consistent application of the 1.50 m distance regulation in Germany.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

The corona pandemic affects the most common situations through the introduction of the 1.50 m minimum distance regulation. Since every person has an individual space requirement it is not easy to keep the distance. In order to record spatial changes in concrete drawings, various encounters and activities of differently acting persons were investigated with the aim of showing a behaviour that is as pandemic-proof as possible.

The result are partly abstruse scenarios, which hardly work in reality. On the basis of the analyses, concrete design approaches were developed that make it possible to react to such exceptional situations without too much effort during a pandemic.

As a testimony to the times, a portfolio has been created that can be seen as a guideline for a further pandemic with regard to public open space, but can also be understood as a cynical criticism of the impossibility of implementing some regulations and recommendations.




Idea by

Julia Rocho, Daniel Paul
Kassel
Germany
We are master students of the University of Kassel in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Julia - born on 09.11.1997 - completed her Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Planning at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg in August 2019. Daniel - born on 30.08.1994 - completed his Bachelor of Arts in Urban Planning at the Technische Ostwestfalen-Lippe in January 2019.