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DESIGN STATEMENT

Covid-19 is an infection disease that have been reported across 188 countries and territories, more than 822,000 deaths and more than 15.6 million people have recovered. During Covid-19, another serious problem is about economy, businesses were forced to close to prevent people from infected, so lot of people have to stay at home. Working from home is a good solving but not everyone can work from home, especially for merchants that work every day in the market, they had a very hard time working during lockdown. A group of people that suffered is street stall’s merchants in the market. Before Covid-19 outbreak, they don’t have enough money to rent a shop for their business so they have to use stall or cart as a workplace, so when Covid-19 has come, everything went getting worse.

Currently, Thailand is low infection rate of covid-19, those businesses, shop, departments store are able to open again after a few month of lockdown. Activities of people has changed, “New Normal” a healthcare system to build back better after Covid-19 by wearing mask, Social and physical distancing, avoid roaming in risk areas, hand sanitizer, etc.

Everyone know how to protect themselves with social distancing but for those street stalls’ merchants who cannot avoid or keep distancing much as they can because congestion of people in market, it’s like unavoidable situation in plague outbreak. They have to keep selling stuffs for daily expenses and living day by day.

Street, carts stalls’ and peddler merchants at Warorot Market cannot avoid risk areas that have lots of people will definitely visit there because they have to work there are nothing they can do about it except protecting themselves such as ; wearing mask or using Hand sanitizer. About earning money in each day for living, not every merchants can earn money from GRAB system, it’s not working for these people in the market at all because of many factors. Another problem that Warorot Market can’t change is area management, there aren’t enough space for stalls and peddler merchants so they have to use a public walkways around the market that’s illegal. They have nowhere else to do anymore. So they are truly a group of people that suffered about economy and risk of infection, we have to redesign a new market area and healthcare area for them.

Our achievement is to manage a safe, comfortable and suitable market area for peddlers and all stalls’ merchant in Warorot Market, developing economy and health by combine New Normal lifestyle that we learnt during COVID19 withdesign part that compatible the original characteristic of the market which known as Chinatown Chiang mai.