IFHE NEWS
Design of new hospital being built in Brazil’s Recife will reflect region’s cultural influences
Rede D’Or São Luiz, Brazil’s largest integrated healthcare network, is planning to double its overall bed capacity from 4,000 to 8,000 in five years, investing increasingly in health, technology, and the quality of its patient care, writes Brazilian architect and current President of Brazilian IFHE association, ABDEH (Associação Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento do Edificio Hospitalar), Ana Paula Perez. A founding partner at Brazilian
architectural practice, C+A Arquitetura in São Paulo, Ana Paula Perez explained: “One of the key elements of this doubling in bed capacity will be a new hospital, called the Memorial Star Hospital, currently under construction in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, in the north-east of Brazil, and which we at C+A Arquitetura have designed. Due for completion later this year, the new hospital will offer a wide range of medium and high complexity clinical and surgical care, as well as specialist oncology treatment.” She continued: “The ‘Star’ project is seeing the construction of a sizeable new hospital incorporating 35,800 m2 of clinical and surgical space.” Facilities will include new patient wards, nine operating theatres, diagnostic support services, emergency care, and support and ancillary areas. The new hospital will have 150 beds, 54 intensive care beds, and 96 hospitalisation beds. One of the new theatres will be hybrid, and feature haemodynamic equipment, while a second will be dedicated to robotic surgery. There will be strong focus on adult oncology care, in addition to a highly complex new surgical suite with ‘smart’ rooms, haemodynamic and robotic technology, nuclear medicine, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy services. “The new facility, expected to open
this December, aims to meet regional clinical and surgical demand by offering the population of Recife another acute hospital with a strong emphasis on safety, quality, and first-class care – the ‘pillars’ of Rede D’Or São Luiz’s business strategy,” Ana Paula Perez added. The design of the interior is inspired
Ana Carolina Machado de Campos (above left) and Ana Paula Perez (right).
by the Brazilian Northeastern Regionality and the Movimento Armorial. Created in the 70s years in Brazil, this reflected artistic and cultural aspects of the popular arts of the region. Established by the prominent Brazilian playwright and author, Ariano Suassuna, who completed his secondary education in Recife, the movement included elements such as literature, music, dance, theatre, visual arts, architecture, and cinema, etc. The playwright was also the founder of the
Student Theatre at the Federal University of Pernambuco. “The internal design will explore
Pernambuco culture through textures and colours,” Ana Paula Perez explained. “With its stories and influences, accompanied by contemporary materials, the new healthcare facility in Recife will bring comfort, sophistication, affection, and personality, complemented by elements of local history and tradition.” C+A Arquitetura para Saúde was
founded in 1998 by architects, Ana Paula Perez and Ana Carolina Machado de Campos, and the practice has since designed over 120 hospitals and 350 medical centres across Brazil, with a total area of 800,000 m2
. Today it employes
40 staff, and specialises in healthcare architecture.
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