The increasing healthcare market competitiveness, the evolution in medical sciences, the constant necessities of new technology incorporation and of improvement in infrastructure have lead hospitals to search for ways of organizing and guiding their actions and investments. However, situations of obsolescence, improvisations and difficulties in updates are found in most of these buildings, especially in Brazil, caused, among other things, by the lack of area planning. From this master plan comes an important instrument of guiding the actions, once it links the strategic planning and the architecture of the establishment. Thus, the objective of this research work is to gather information and concepts about hospital master plans, through a methodological approach due to the high complexity involved. The first part of the work refers to the bibliographical review which describes the importance of hospital area planning and the role of the architect in this process, which is influenced by complexity, an intrinsic characteristic of hospitals. In the second part of the work, principles and methods on master planning used by three Brazilian architects are analyzed, relating them to the bibliographical review. It also analyzed the résumé of each architect in order to characterize part of the production of plans in the country. In this sense, it is expected to achieve the main objective of the research, besides contributing to the work of architects, engineers and consultants of the health system, and bringing knowledge to managers, owners, public institutions and others, about the importance of a hospital master plan.
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Bibliographical review
2.1. Master Plan and the Role of the Architect in Hospital Planning
2.2. The Complexity of Buildings and Design Methods
2.3. Conceptualization and Methods of Master Plan
3. Methodology
4. Results
4.1. The Role of the Architect in Hospital Planning Process
4.2. Methods of Hospital Master Plans
4.3. Partial Analysis of the Production of Hospital Master Plans in Brazil
5. Concluding remarks
6. Acknowledgements
7. References