Tέchne: A multidisciplinary answer to the COVID-19 response – some cases from Africa and Europe

Covid-19 treatment centers are rapidly becoming a new design typology, born in a time of emergency and becoming more effective as each new design attempts to maximize the potential of distributive systems as well as technical systems in containing the spread of the disease. Tέchne is part of the response of WHO to the COVID-19 pandemic, and more precisely to the widespread need to rapidly set up health facilities that are able to hospitalise infected and infectious patients while reducing the risk of nosocomial infections amongst healthcare workers and other patients seeking care. This article looks to some examples of projects carried out by Tέchne as a way to show different possibilities of design for COVID-19 treatment centers.