SCENARIO PLANNING
relevance, a complementary challenge to be considered in the design of this work. The healthcare space has been expanded as a result of public investment and a commitment to the neighbouring region. The internal and external elements of
existing buildings and their internal and external dimensions referred to in the technical regulation RDC Nº 50 of Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) fed back the process of defining the proposed planning and the interventions that should contribute to the master plan. A search for solutions for the quality of life of people in the city of Belo Horizonte was based on the promotion of health that the hospital has as its function. This project assumes spatial and social dimensions that go beyond the limits of its walls and can be considered as a complex of buildings and strategic health care functions for Belo Horizonte. This is how the concept of HMOB arises.
Historical references The design conception of HMOB was the responsibility of the Italian architect Raffaello Berti, who had chosen the city of Belo Horizonte in 1930 to live. He also participated in the founding of the School of Architecture at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), where he served as a professor for 37 years (FONSECA,2000). In Belo Horizonte, Raffaello left the
most important contribution in health buildings through the projects of Santa Casa de Misericórdia, Hospital Felicio Rocho, Hospital Vera Cruz, and Hospital Odilon Behrens. On 30 March 1944, as requested by
Juscelino Kubitschek, then mayor of Belo Horizonte and who would become President of Brazil in 1957, the conception of the architectural project of the new Hospital was completed. Works began in August 1941 and soon the hospital unit would gain the name of Doctor Odilon
The Hospital Metropolitano Odilon Behrens and its various assistance buildings. Inset: aerial view in 1944.
Behrens, secretary of the State of Minas Gerais and personal friend of the future President Kubitschek. The first stage of the hospital unit was inaugurated in March 1944 and “had 100 beds and consisted of the outpatient clinic, laboratory, waiting room, administrative services, surgery sector, sisters’ house, and hospitalisation service.” (FONSECA).
Planning The development of architectural studies for health care establishments which are in full operation is one of the planning components that demands the most accurate and efficient data collection and technical information of the existing situation with a view to obtaining the best results. The definition of modulations and
hierarchy of accesses, vertical and horizontal circulation flows, spatial distribution of assistance activities, characteristics of coating materials, and environmental comfort components, must be observed in an integrated and compatible way with the financial
resources and with the strategic ordering of the operation of the hospital. In this way, the elaboration of
flowcharts and physiograms is one of the most important tasks to be performed for the reduction of failures and the consequent establishment of a good architectural project. This evaluation will directly reflect on the quality of the design result through the efficient provision of health care and the corresponding administrative functioning of the hospital, including aspects of safety, building and hospital infrastructure, logistical, and technical support functions. Another relevant aspect refers to the
characterisation of the activities of each sector and the establishment of its interrelationship with the rest of the unit, defining the zoning. This stage of the master plan requires the full participation of the teams responsible for providing
Italian Architect Raffaello Berti, author of the Hospital Metropolitano Odilon Behrens project, and the façade of the Santa Casa de Misericórdia in Belo he designed.
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