Proposta arquitetônica de um hospital da criança associado ao Hospital Universitário Professor Alberto Antunes - HUPAA

Abstract

For children, hospitals represent an unknown environment with restricted activities and possibilities, therefore hospitalization in such cases can be a potentially traumatic experience. With a new reality imposed by the COVID -19 pandemic, children are even more affected. For that reason, contemporary health spaces require a new design and a more humane relationship with their users where all health professionals are valued during the architectural design, surpassing the technical, simple and formal composition of environments. Currently, in Alagoas, there is no exclusive hospital for children, and the demand is always beyond the number of beds made available by the Public Health System (SUS). Based on the observation of such situation, this work presents a preliminary design for a Children Hospital ran by the Public Health System associated to Hospital Universitário de Maceió. For a better understanding of the addressed issue, the research was based on a bibliographic and document review on the subject, case studies and analysis of how health spaces work, interviews with employees and parents to better understand their needs.The result consists on a Children Hospital, which seeks to meet the demand for hospital beds to a parcel of the population that suffer from this lack of opportunity, with concepts of humanization applied since the architectural insertion to the qualification of the internal spaces, for better comfort, relaxation and recovery of users.