How to Deal with Epidemic Disaster in Buildings: Introduction to the Epidemic Prevention Design Standard of Residential Building

The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought new challenges to architectural design: how to reduce the impact of epidemic disasters through architectural design. The paper compared the number of casualties caused by epidemics and geological and meteorological disasters in history, and analyzed the ways of transmission of novel coronavirus and the building response strategies, concluding the necessity and importance of compiling epidemic prevention standards, and suggesting building epidemic prevention standards be taken as one of the basic standards for urban and building disaster prevention, to provide a safe barrier against epidemic disasters for a higher living environment in the future. And the paper introduced the starting point, positioning and thinking of compiling Epidemic Prevention Design Standard Of Residential Building (T/ASC27-2022), including the general principles, chapter division, epidemic prevention level of building and epidemic prevention design measures of different specialties providing a safe barrier against epidemic disasters when the next epidemic strikes. Finally, the specific case application of the epidemic prevention design of the Qianxihui project in Putian, Fujian Province is elaborated in detail.