Filipino architects’ solutions for Covid-19 facility

THE world was surprised with the widespread effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) towards the end of 2019 and now it has been raging across the globe as a worldwide pandemic. The increasing numbers of affected individuals and the rising death toll with no medical solutions yet in the horizon is formidable. Science and architecture collaborated to provide trailblazing design contributions for its medical and isolation facilities to safeguard the patients, health workers and community.

Looking back in our own history, the Philippines was devastated by a cholera outbreak during the early American colonial period, which occurred in the years 1910, 1920 and 1935 and caused many deaths. In response to the growing epidemic of tuberculosis, former Philippine Commonwealth president Manuel Luis Quezon ordered the construction of the Quezon Institute. The said hospital was dedicated to tuberculosis treatment and other contagious pulmonary ailments.