Moustafa Khaled
Editor of Arabic Science Archive (ArabiXiv).
Cities. 2020 Dec;107:102903. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2020.102903. Epub 2020 Aug 24.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic should teach us some lessons at health, environmental and human levels toward more fairness, human cohesion and environmental sustainability. At a health level, the pandemic raises the importance of housing for everyone particularly vulnerable and homeless people to protect them from the disease and against other similar airborne pandemics. Here, I propose to make good use of big data along with 3D construction printers to construct houses and solve some major and pressing housing needs worldwide. Big data can be used to determine how many people do need accommodation and 3D construction printers to build houses accordingly and swiftly. The combination of such facilities- big data and 3D printers- can help solve global housing crises more efficiently than traditional and unguided construction plans, particularly under environmental and major health crises where health and housing are tightly interrelated.
持续的新冠疫情应该在健康、环境和人类层面给我们一些教训，以实现更大的公平、人类凝聚力和环境可持续性。在健康层面，疫情凸显了住房对每个人尤其是弱势群体和无家可归者的重要性，以保护他们免受疾病以及其他类似空气传播大流行病的侵害。在此，我提议充分利用大数据以及3D建筑打印机来建造房屋，解决全球一些重大且紧迫的住房需求。大数据可用于确定有多少人需要住房，3D建筑打印机则据此快速建造房屋。大数据和3D打印机等此类设施的结合，能够比传统且无指导的建设计划更有效地帮助解决全球住房危机，特别是在健康与住房紧密相关的环境和重大健康危机情况下。
