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Listen Again: The Power Of Spaces

TED Radio Hour

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Airborne Diseases Are Mitigated by Airflow

Air born diseases are mitigated by moving more air through the room. So i worked with bruce nesey and his team and came up with a design whose primary goal was to reduce transmission of infections. And our precedents were t b sanatoriums designed in the twenties and thirties. Medical facilities designed in the nineteenth century, like florence nightingale and alver alto. They wer thinking about how a building is sited and oriented to capture and maintain and control as much air as possible....

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