COVID-19
FÁBIO BITENCOURT, DORIS VILAS-BOAS, EMERSON DA SILVA – ARCHITECTS, BRAZILIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HOSPITAL BUILDING (ABDEH), BRAZIL
Brazilian hospitalsduring COVID-19: a hard lesson
The implementation of more than 300 healthcare facilities attending to COVID-19 is the object of a broad study presented in the book Architecture for Emergencies: Experiences, Apprenticeship and Reflections, published in May 2021. In this article, the authors of the book – Fábio Bitencourt, Doris Vilas-Boas and Emerson da Silva - examine some of the projects and how they have dealt with the pandemic.
Our book, Architecture for Emergencies: Experiences, Apprenticeship and Reflections, published in May 2021, is an unparalleled precedented work that brought together a network of Brazilian architects, engineers and managers who work in the country in its diverse and specific activities of planning, construction, and management of hospital buildings in the public or private health system. This article presents the objectives and the research methodology used to carry out the work, while providing examples of hospital projects built to attend the pandemic. The work does not end with the presentation of solutions, but with
evidence of the search for new architecture planning strategies for health in situations like the one we still live in. By presenting different approaches and components necessary for the development of architectural programming for each environment related to health emergencies in Brazil, the respective activities to be developed there are considered, but the human dimension in these contexts is prioritised.
Context The research carried out is also a commitment learning from experiences and reflections on planning architecture for healthcare. It is an for all, authors and
readers, to recognise solutions for new buildings aimed at improving care in emergency situations. It was thinking about how teachers,
workers, community leaders, architects and other professionals could contribute to the health and wellbeing of people in cities that Nigel Crisp wrote in mid-2020 the book, Health is made at home, hospitals are for repairs: Building a healthy and health-creating society. Crisp, former director of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has devised a ‘journey of discovery about how each of us can create or promote health.1
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we are waiting for our health institutions to be the providers of this function, especially during this pandemic period of COVID-19, there has been an absence of credible leadership on future strategies. The research makes it possible to
Fábio Bitencourt Doris Vilas-Boas Emerson da Silva
•Fábio Bitencourt is an architect, professor and member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Healthcare Engineering since 2014. An author of various books and publications on hospital architecture, human comfort, healthcare environments and ergonomics, Fábio is also a member of the Brazilian Academy of Hospital Management (ABAH), a member of International Academy for Design and Health (Design & Health) and leader of the South America Chapter. He is also a past President of the Brazilian Association for the Development of Hospital Building (ABDEH). •Doris Vilas-Boas is a vice-president of the Brazilian Association for the Development of Hospital Building (ABDEH), active in the area of healthcare network planning. Doris is also a specialist in health systems architecture at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), PAHO/WHO consultant for the Ministry of Health, and researcher at the Hospital Engineering and Architecture Study Group at UFBA. •Emerson da Silva is a Brazilian architect who specialises in biosafety. He is President of the Brazilian Association for the Development of Hospital Buildings (ABDEH) and was President of the Institute of Brazilian Architects between 2017 and 2020. Emerson is also a former vice- president for institutional relations at ABDEH.
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discuss ways and new strategies for thinking about the future of hospital buildings in similar situations for Brazil and other regions of the world with similar social-economic profiles, demographics and healthcare demands. The examples of hospital construction in the book – and this article – were presented by the authors, architects, and engineers themselves, all with an important role in the elaboration of healthcare projects. Adaptations were made to football stadia, hotels, resorts, old hospitals, disabled
Figure 1. Main access to Hospital do Subúrbio.
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