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Designing the Future - By Brian Libby
Proactive and Flexible
Perhaps because Portland, Oregon, firm Mackenzie offers a
wide array of design services-from architecture and interiors
to structural and civil engineering to transit planning and
landscape architecture-the pandemic brought questions
from clients across the built environment. "The most
immediate concerns were about re-entry into their buildings,
especially as it related to offices or retail spaces," explains
firm president Dietrich Wieland. "They were looking for
guidelines about how to get back to work and retrofit."
So that's what Mackenzie produced: a 29-page COVID-19
Design Guide that was given out to clients. It begins by
summarizing published guidelines for physical distancing,
building sanitization, and operations. Next, the guide diagrams
a series of simple ways to retrofit spaces with a combination
of behavioral and physical actions: one-way traffic, touchless
doors, and frequently placed stations for sanitizing hands and
grabbing a mask.
One-way traffic in public spaces
is among the guidelines in
Mackenzie's COVID-19 Design Guide.
(Image: Courtesy of Mackenzie)
"It's a work in progress," Wieland says. "But I think the key will
remain designing flexibility. How do you reconfigure space easily?
How do you adapt it? That will become even more important."
One trend that was already on its way, building automation,
Wieland sees quickening. "It's not just video conferencing and
remote collaboration," he clarifies. "I'm talking about touchless
entries and touchless elevators that you're navigating with
your phone."
Dietrich Wieland,
Mackenzie
Throughout history, this narrative has played out time after time:
An historic event casts a dark cloud yet in time also reveals silver
linings of positive change. That was certainly the case a century
ago following the 1918 flu pandemic, for example, and when peace
finally arrived in 1945 at the end of World War II. Whole new eras
and ways of living unfolded, and designers led the way. That's
likely to be true again.
BRIAN LIBBY
is a journalist, photographer, and award-winning
fi lmmaker. His articles have appeared in
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,
The Atlantic, and Architectural Digest.
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