Diseño arquitectónico de una residencia de tratamiento geriátrico en la ciudad de Loja.

Abstract

The architectural design has been the area of choice for the project in order to degree in the faculty of architecture, in which a specific reference to the welfare of the community was chosen problem. After making the appropriate and necessary research within the selected type, it was found that there is an increase in the elderly population, not only locally but globally thus the need to intervene through our media in this vulnerable sector elderly, their needs, care, recreation, etc., in order for its development in our country and his participation in it, thus making this work and architectural design to conduct a Private Geriatric Treatment. A comprehensive feasibility study of the project on the site, services and requirements it entails to be an efficient and functional residence where seniors who need their services be accepted, temporary, permanent or eventually, and in turn drew people they are close to reaching this stage as a space for setting and testing to this new stage of life. The problem of the project, according to studies, is focused on one of the points of highest incidence in this group, abandonment both at home and in nursing homes that provide residence deficiency still evident in the attention their families and professionals in the daily live, and lack - lack of a suitable environment for their development and developing an active part of society and why not to play a roll in the same through workshops and therapies. Thus creating a Geriatric Treatment residence, where the design meets all requirements to develop a safe environment for the care, development and very important to maintain or recover their autonomy, in an attractive and functional environment while eliminating cloister that erroneous consideration and used as a threat: “bring the elderly to a nursing home.” Information collected by an analysis of this population in the city of Loja is established, and with the knowledge gained an architectural blueprint containing applies: architectural design of the entire residence, weighting of land, site analysis to implement, floor plans, elevations, perspectives and sections. To make the presentation of the architectural design previously developed some standards related to the development of the elderly in different areas requiring residence, also establishing an architectural, graphs and matrices relations program, architectural party, geometric alternatives, form and function; to finally obtain an efficient design that meets the needs and care of the elderly in a space designed exclusively for them.