CAIS DA CRIANÇA: Anteprojeto de um Centro de Atenção Integral à Saúde da Criança para Santa Rita/PB

Abstract

The construction of hospital architecture for children in the public sector, in general, is fated to the repetition of formal and functional patterns that disregard the singular character of children’s universe. The concern focused on pathology and isolated clinical treatment is translated into monotonous and impersonal spaces that do not meet the infant’s real needs. In opposition, there is an alternative model of hospital assistance, characterized by the approach centered in the child, that preaches integrated service to the patient by maintaining links between people, environment and objects. In this context, the main objective of the present work is to develop the preliminary draft of a Center for Comprehensive Child Health Care (Child’s CAIS) in Santa Rita-PB, based on the concepts of hospital care centered on children and the tendency to non-hospitalization, besides the legal, normative and conceptual requirements of institutional architecture of health area and the guidelines of spatial humanization. The Child’s CAIS was conceived to attend a public of children and adolescents from 0 to 14 years old on outpatient regime, and urgency and emergency. The methodology adopted followed stages of bibliographic research, field and reference research, analysis of related projects, architectural proposition and, finally, the conception of the architectural preliminary draft.