Gensler, WXY, SITU, and others collaborate on 100-page guide for safe social distancing in schools

Gensler, WXY, PSF Projects, PBDW, SITU, and Urban Projects Collaborative have come together with Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools (LAB) to develop a toolkit that explores ideas for how school layouts and operating procedures might change in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the guide is geared toward re-designing the entry sequences at schools to allow for increased coronavirus testing, required social distancing, and for the safe travel between home and school for children. The adaptations are also geared toward reworking the sidewalks and spaces immediately around school entrances in order to accommodate the long lines that will result as new, slower arrival procedures are implemented for students. Previously on Archinect: "AIA updates pandemic re-occupancy design tools." Photo courtesy of  Lincoln Barbour.Additionally, the guide offers approaches for establishing social distancing within the classroom, ways of providing overhead covering for queuing students, ad...