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RE: 🏥 Saving a Hospital in Venezuela - Salvando un Hospital en Venezuela 🏥

in Architecture+Design4 years ago

Hello @fausto1997, thank you for showcasing your hospital internship project in this community! Certainly, it takes specialized knowledge and skills in architectural programming, space planning, and careful analysis of healthcare facilities for its successful outcome. And I'm glad you had early exposure to these types of environments during your university days. Of all the tasks you've mentioned here, what were your most difficult challenges in the redesign of that hospital?

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The truth is that relocating all the spaces that were needed was somewhat difficult because the hospital does not have the regulatory measures and, on the other hand, nor the capacity to obtain the classification that it currently has. Another very important aspect that we discovered together with the other person who designed the other side of the hospital, which is the west wing, is that he had to deal with the fact that the structural columns were not aligned on the same axis, which we realized during the inspection of the hospital. Apparently the person who designed them made that mistake, or the people who built it, in the same way not all the columns had that problem with the axes, only 3 or 4. On the other hand we were able to give a little more sense to the spaces. Thank you for appreciating my effort, I will continue to publish more content to contribute to the community. Thank you very much.

So many critical factors in that hospital's redesign indeed. As architects, we're trained to handle space programming and structural design solutions to suit specific problems especially in the specialized industry of healthcare. Many thanks for this beautifully comprehensive post and see you in the next one.