MARIANA IRIGOYEN & LUCIANO MONZA – ARCHITECTS, ARQUISALUD, ARGENTINA ARCHITECTURE
Building highcomplexity rehabilitation centre
, 140-bed, Pilar Rehabilitation Centre will care for patients with motor and cognitive dysfunction, with an area for palliative care.
Argentinian architects Mariana Irigoyen and Luciano Monza describe the building of a high complexity rehabilitation centre under construction in a semi-urban, three-hectare site in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. Planned to open in 2022, the 10,000 m2
Due to open in 2022, the Pilar Rehabilitation Centre is designed to house a rehabilitation centre for patients with motor and/or cognitive disabilities in addition to an inpatient sector for palliative care. It will have a total of 140 beds. Without losing its overall objectives for which the building is being created, the general premise of this project was to develop a sustainable building. Some of the general strategies carried out in this project are: l Minimising the environmental footprint. l Efficient land use integrating it into the natural landscape.
l Avoiding major impacts on the environment that can affect the temperature and create a heat island effect.
l Roofs covered with green and stones that can absorb and/or reflect sunlight to protect the building and the environment, and slow down rainwater drainage.
l Deep eaves to mitigate the entry of summer sunlight that can be very hot.
l Reduce energy and water consumption throughout the building’s life-span.
l Use of renewable energies to complement conventional services.
Mariana Irigoyen
Maria is a partner at ArquiSalud, a Buenos Aires architecture studio specialised in programme planning, project and building direction of healthcare institutions. Maria is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of Buenos Aires University and a postgraduate teacher at the same faculty. She has also given architecture lectures at conferences in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Dominican Republic.
Luciano Monza
Luciano is a partner at ArquiSalud, a Buenos Aires architecture studio specialised in programme planning, project and building direction of healthcare institutions. Luciano is a specialist in healthcare
facility planning, and a PhD student at the University of Buenos Aires. Luciano is a former president and vice-president of the Argentinian Healthcare Architecture and Engineering
Association (AADAIH) and was president of the 23rd IFHE World Congress 2014. He is a postgraduate teacher in
Argentina, Brazil and Spain, and conference lecturer in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, México, Norway, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Existing trees location. 50 IFHE DIGEST 2022
l Architecture should assist patient recovery by creating sustainable environmental strategies, giving all the spaces where the patient stays or moves some natural lighting and visuals to the outside flora.
Trees The site where the rehabilitation centre is being built is located in a suburban area of the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. This is a 30,517.73 m2
area with many and
varied trees, where some of greater size and importance are located towards the front and some other smaller and/or bush varieties are located on its limits, sides and back. This distribution of flora allows us to project and construct the building without practically eliminating any tree. In line with the above mentioned
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