Resilient Living in the Post-Pandemic City: Towards Fine-Grained Architecture & Urbanism

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In Computer Science, fine-grained parallelism is a terminology to define the computer architecture where a program is broken down to a huge amount of small tasks. These small tasks are allocated individually to multiple processors. As a result, the amount of workload assigned to a parallel task becomes lower and the work can be distributed evenly across the processors. Hence fine-grained parallelism enables load balancing.During Covid-19 pandemic, social distancing was essential and this requires decreasing density in the social arena. However, we can’t rebuild or expand the city in the geometric sense. Instead, a city can be re-designed or re-imagined to embed more spatial potentials and behavioural options to maximise distribution – hence fine-grained system. By increasing the number of spatial layers and cells, the city can generate more spaces and routes, enabling more separation and distribution of activities in the topological sense. Starting from body posture and furniture using inside the house up to cityplanning, we can reduce the risk of vulnerability from Pandemic and even from climate change by adopting the concept of fine-grained architecture and urbanism.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• ABSTRACT
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Hierarchies of Living and Fine-Grained Parallelism
• 3. Network-based Urban Dwelling
• 4. Conclusion
• Reference