REDEVELOPMENT


The MAT buildings public streets chess system method consists of the sequential replacement of non-historic buildings, with new high complexity areas being incorporated in stages.


World Bank, BID, or ONU) or a public private


partnership project (ppp or p3)’. Architecture: Development of a Master


Plan in Stages – Through an architecture developed in stages, which must be increasingly flexible and with high capacity for growth in terms of new hospital processes or expansion of existing processes. • MAT buildings – Recognising Alison Smithson’s MAT Building Concept, (Team X, 1974), we consider MAT to be the answer to efficiency, indeterminacy, and flexibility in programme mixture.


• Public Streets – A System of Public Streets is organised and included within the MAT to enable connection of new stages of building with existing, historical buildings.


Technology: Diagnosis and treatment


• Chess System – This includes the sequential replacement of non-historic buildings into new buildings which incorporate high complexity medical areas.


areas consolidated and integrated – The current trends towards constant changes in technology demands an architecture which is capable of being highly responsive. This can be achieved through the analysis of all procedures, devices and appliances on the market, to determine which technology and medical equipment should be used in order to achieve the new hospital medical model. After an analysis of the current functional


layout areas of hospitals’ we propose that they be classified as either determined design areas or undetermined design areas. Determined design areas require very specialised, highly technical functional elements such as a surgical area, and kitchens or sterilisation areas. Undetermined design areas are organised by a grid of modules in order to adopt planning or functional changes in order to meet the needs of changing technologies,


Constructive resolution: The constructive operation should improve maintenance and refunctionalisation


throughout its lifetime. Operation of the building, facility management: How to forecast readjustment during its lifetime, depending on growth and future trends – Construction is a fundamental part of the systemic solution to allow for the buildings growth in stages, on the complex issue of representing management decisions to develop a Master Plan, we must not ignore the importance of the time variables, and how the stages, processes and buildings should be considered in terms of changes, increases or reductions to be carried out with the greatest possible efficiency. Rational, orderly traditional construction


methods allow for the generation of a simple building with sustainable operative maintenance. 7.50 m x 7.50 m modules are created


through the use of a system of concrete columns with a height of 4.20 m between slabs to allow for technical spaces without beams on every level. These modular concrete structures, without beams, provide flexibility for future change in each stage. Partitions between modules are light and portable. Installations are coordinated with the


structure in order to assure flexibility. The layout of each installation is


formulated in accordance to the following system in each stage – centralised supply of electricity; decentralised provision of air conditioning; and perimeter drainage systems in each building.


Conclusion We consider that a Master Plan should consist not only of planning but also of relocating areas in order to modify the established hospital process. A Master Plan should use a methodology that ensures objectives are reached, where architecture


‘The methodology proposed by the Chess system results in buildings that are feasible from an economic perspective and that are able to respond to the needs of 21st


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generates the whole, rather than a sum of the parts, or where architecture integrates, rather than being a literal translation of functional programming. MAT buildings public streets chess system


method consists of the sequential replacement of non-historical buildings into new ones in successive stages. New, high complexity medical areas are incorporated in stages while the historic buildings maintain functions related to non-high complexity areas. MAT buildings public streets chess system


method also recovers valued centennial buildings, enables sequential replacement of centennial buildings, achieves consolidated high complexity buildings and allows full integration between the centennial and new buildings, while hospitals continue to operate. The method also results in buildings that


are economically possible and that are able to respond to the needs of 21st


Century


medicine, and buildings that are the result of a generic system of great simplicity of design and construction. The methodology can be replicated in various public hospitals in Argentina, which have a similar buildings status, similar situation of functional and technological obsolescence. Finally, the application of this open,


typological project system in every hospital, allows for buildings that are flexible enough to cope with future changes and growth. The complexity of this operation requires project criteria that allows future design operations in all cases, from the first to the last stage. Typological organisation defines each


Century medicine.’


example – Use of a modular pattern or grid, circulatory structure, architecture of each area – In every case, the buildings are organised by way of ‘public streets’ with a series of patios or yards and comb shaped plan buildings that make up a universal organisational system.


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