Architecture Post COVID-19

On 18 March 2020, the World Health Organization announced that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had reached 9 global pandemic status. The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia implemented a COVID-19 lockdown that lasted for four months. After the period of restrictions ended, people were supposed to return to their normal social lives; however, the lockdown had a psychological impact on people without them being aware of it. This research aimed to study the effect of COVID-19 on social life, mainly focusing on six public activities: visiting shopping malls, mosques, open spaces, interior space, psychological effect and occupational aspects. The Method survey was distributed during lockdown including the six focus areas and collected using Google Forms. Also, a computer program simulation (ENVI-MET) was used to study and develop an outdoor environment. The research focuses on the outdoor environment to find solutions on a sample used Al Rouda Park in Riyadh.

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Dr. Hind Abdelmoneim Khogali, PhD, is Assistant professor and has a PhD in Architecture from UOFK, a MSc in Environmental Science since 2005 from UOFK, a BSC in Architecture Engineering since 1994 from Ain Shams University. Place of work : Dar Al Uloom University, Riyadh City, KSA.