HERIBERTO F HILDEBRANDT KLAPP – EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, HILDEBRANDT+ASOCIADOS DESIGN AND RENOVATION
Design and renovation in a paediatric hospital
Despite having received several private donations, The Children and Cradles Hospital in Viña del Mar in Chile was still of low complexity. However, the plan was to make the necessary functional adjustments and additions to turn it into a medium complexity healthcare facility in the medium term, but also to make it fit for the future.
The city of Viña del Mar, Chile.
The Children and Cradles Hospital in Viña del Mar in Chile was founded in 1914 by Chilean benefactors Mr Guillermo Brown and Ms Manuela Carvallo and opened in 1920. Unfortunately the name of the architect of the original building is unknown. The hospital facilities include a beautiful Catholic Chapel, built in 1944, which is the work of architects Juan Lyon and Oscar Larrañaga. The hospital is based on an urban plot
that is centrally located in Viña del Mar city. As a well known hospital for children, it has received several private donations that have enabled it to grow over time. Despite this, the hospital has remained of low complexity, but the goal was to turn it in the medium term into a medium complexity facility. A private donation received in 2017 from the Hornauer Olivares family in memory of Mr Juan
The entrance and waiting room.
Hornauer meant the project and the renovation of the surgical department could begin in 2018. The architecture and engineering design was carried out by H+A, while the renovation was undertaken by Minden/W. The surface area of the hospital is , which includes care units
5457 m2
(38 beds), emergency (nine rooms), 12 medical rooms, a radiology department, a laboratory, three operating rooms and a central sterilisation facility.
Functionality The aim of renovating the operating rooms was to create the best possible layout in a limited space. The only way to obtain more space was by removing a cafeteria and two treatment rooms, which were not suited to being in a surgical area. The unit was split into an administrative
Heriberto F Hildebrandt Klapp
Heriberto F Hildebrandt Klapp is an architect and executive director at Hildebrandt + Asociados/H+A. He studied
architecture at the University of Chile, Valparaiso. Until 1975, he was involved in freelance professional practice in Chile. He then worked on hospital projects in Germany, Guatamala and
Nicaragua until 1983, when he returned to Chile and Hildebrandt + Asociados (H+A) was established. The company is now
managed by Heriberto’ son, architect Ivan F Hildebrandt Hraste. He is also co-founder and president of AARQHOS, Chile (IFHE A-Member) from 2016-2018 and 2018-2020.
68 The traumatology surgery room.
area and a clinical area. The administrative area includes general access, an outpatient waiting room, the nurses’ office, outpatient dressing and toilet facilities, a staff room, a medical room, ‘clean’ and ‘dirty’ elevators to central sterilisation, a cleaning room and an area for soiled material (post-operative materials, soiled clothes and hospital waste). The clinical area includes inpatient access, storage for clean clothes, sterile material and clinical equipment, six surgical washbasins, three operating rooms with airtight sliding doors and a post-operative recovery room with six beds for inpatients and two areas for outpatients. The interior design was intended to
remain as close as possible to the original, IFHE DIGEST 2019
The ambulatory surgery room.
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