With this project we have had an opportunity to connect the heroic past of a venerable city institution to its promising future. The construction of a new Ambulatory Care Pavilion and the renovation of important medical spaces have substantially transformed the existing hospital complex,serving a wide range of patients, including the poor and indigent, into an advanced medical campus.
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Our planet’s population is now going through the biggest shared experience in decades due to COVID-19, and the way people think about life and illness today is incomparable with any time in history.
The industrial city of São Bernardo do Campo, in the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo, played a remarkable role in the recent democracy in Brazil. It was there where the former president Lula arose as a syndicalist to found the workers party, PT, in 1980. Under the second consecutive government of the mayor Luiz Marinho, the Board of Health nowadays is led by Odete Carmem Gialdi who succeeded Arthur Chioro, currently incumbent of the Ministry of Health in Brasilia whose headship focuses on strategies to assure assistance of quality for all.
Program: Pediatric orthopedic care facility with an outpatient surgical suite, diagnostic clinic and radiology department, rehabilitation clinic, orthotics and prosthetics manufacturing, patient and family support services, and administrative offices. It also includes an outdoor rehabilitation therapy garden, outdoor gathering/event space, conference space, and subterranean parking garage.
In general, the flows of medical buildings are often stiff passageways; however, the interior design of Xiamen Humanity Hospital transforms those stiff passageways of traditional medical buildings into various meticulous service spaces full of service and vitality.
Hospital Veterinario del Mar is a 24-hour center specialized in comprehensive veterinary care services.
The corporate interior design project is the beginning of a new stage for the business, which has a thirty-year history in the field. This new stage includes a change of location to larger facilities and the renewal of the brand and a new positioning in the market.
American International Hospital (AIH) is one of the first hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, designed and operated to American hospital standards. With its capacity of 120 beds on 10 stories, AIH is equipped with modern medical facilities.
The interiors bridge the blurred boundary between medical space and a luxury hotel’s experience, replicating the latter’s positive effects to improve the psychology of patients and promoting healing and recovery for the body.
The Kálida Centre is a space of emotional, social and practical support for cancer patients and people around them. It is a home opened to everyone, where qualified professionals offer their help. A house to meet other people, a house where to find a quiet retreat or to have a cup of tea.
The plot is located between the new hospital and the original Art Nouveau buildings. It is parallel to a new road defined by the special urban plan of the area and follows the orthogonal plan of the original project. The project includes a small 400 m2 building and a wide garden within the general green area of the building complex. The fundamental idea of the project is to plant some new coloured flowers in the garden of the original hospital, and so the centre is designed as a garden pavilion where the boundaries between interior and exterior blur and vary. The building offers privacy, light, retreat and protection around the garden.
The Center for Cancer Research and Treatment project promoted by the Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo Foundation is located to the north of the city of Bogotá surrounded by green zones and with the hills of Los Cerros as the backdrop. The building faces the mountains, maximizing access to the views and creating a sequence of interior and exterior spaces that reconnect the patient to natural surroundings that, due to the favorable climatic conditions, can be used all year round.