Project Description: 

The Rethink: 2025 competition invited RIBA members and students to imagine what life in our new, post-pandemic world could look like by 2025. Participants were asked to think about how the global Covid-19 outbreak will modify the way people interact with spaces and each other and whether design could mitigate the worst effects

​This is a chance to utilize redundant spaces for community benefit and think about what is next for Covid-19 allocated spaces. Across the country many facilities have been transformed into emergency locations for coronavirus patients and working from home is now the new norm. 

The opportunity has arisen for commercial building stock to be re-purposed as community centric mixed-use architecture. How can large corporations and the vulnerable benefit from these changes?

With the government using funds to lease redundant floors, instead of investing in short term fixes, we can reduce the rent overheads of big businesses who have benefit hard by the pandemic and have a reduced need for their office space.

Our proposal explores how our existing commercial building stock could be re-purposed to rehabilitate and house the homeless, provide job opportunities, education and charity missions. In 2025, the threat of global pandemics will not have subsided and daily life will continue to be heavily influenced by Covid-19. This paradigm explores changing attitudes towards community and how it can be benefited from the new social landscape.

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Co-Collaborators: 
Ben Holland

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