DESIGN JONAS BADERMANN DE LEMOS – ARCHITECT, BADERMANN ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS
Designing a complex multifunctional space
Designed for people and technically appropriate to promote not only healing but also health and education, the challenge of designing a hospital complex with a variety of functions is magnified when it is also a teaching hospital. The teaching hospital at Lavras Federal University (UFLA), Minas Gerais, illustrates the complexity of such a project, revealing the guidelines, design strategies and architectural solutions adopted to ensure that it promotes both health and education in healthcare.
Facilities in a hospital may include hotels, laboratories, laundries, pharmacies and restaurants. A teaching hospital also includes a school. Therefore, in addition to healthcare professionals such as doctors and nurses, there are also managers, suppliers, pharmacists, general workers and maintenance technicians as well as students who need a practical space in which to learn. Alongside patients and medical treatment, there are teacher and students at different stages of medical training. The technological dimension already
inherent in a hospital assumes an even more important role because the teaching hospital emerges as a reference innovation hub. A teaching hospital is a centre of scientific research that introduces new diagnostic tools and treatments with precursory techniques and equipment, which requires flexibility and the continuous development of facilities. The process of change and advancing technology also demands more and more space inside the teaching hospital. A teaching hospital building must also
be progressively adapted in terms of the strategies of the institution, healthcare processes, operational costs, maintenance, water consumption and energy efficiency, to meet sustainability goals. Such solutions, which are grounded in evidence based design, have a positive impact on patients and staff. Using elements such as natural ventilation, natural light indoors, views of outdoor areas and other positive distractions – such as music, art, entertainment and social
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An aerial view of the teaching hospital.
encounters - architecture should inspire positive feelings in patients, distracting them from their physical and emotional state. In this context, architecture begins to participate decisively in the healing process, also promoting wellbeing in staff and students.
Jonas Badermann de Lemos
Jonas Badermann de Lemos is a Brazilian architect who has worked in health planning for the past 30 years and is devoted to the improvement of
healthcare architecture through design and teaching. He leads Badermann
Associated Architects on projects that address issues of humanisation and functionality based on technical and normative knowledge. With his team, he develops design solutions that
promote therapeutic architecture from planning to interior design.
The design process considers all
variables, starting with an understanding of the role of the institution. Lavras Federal University (UFLA) joined the Brazilian government programme ‘More Doctors’ and created the medical school in 2015. The school aims to train professionals to promote individual and collective health through preventive and rehabilitative action using diagnostic and therapeutic evidence based practice. The experiential practices permeate all activities to develop the student’s autonomy and critical reflexive senses, as well as the human and technical scientific skills necessary in future professionals. Therefore, the teaching hospital emerges as a technology and local community reference centre with roles that include: keeping people healthy through diagnosis and prevention; caring for critically ill patients who demand the most advanced technology in order to survive; and offering excellence to professionals in training.
IFHE DIGEST 2019
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