Specialist argues that architects follow the technology … – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

A researcher at the Technical University argued on Tuesday that architects must keep up with technological developments in medicine and create hospital spaces that contribute to healing and caring, facilitating mobility and promoting the psychological well-being.

“We are in a time of great challenges – technological and medical – and, given the need to foster an environment built capable of being sustainable” and to adapt to the physical and psychological needs of the patient , “it is critical that architects, engineers and planners prepare to follow the medicine and the social sciences in this search for a new programmatic agenda, disciplinary and policy,” said Ana Pennies.

For the expert of the Institute Superior Técnico (IST), it is important to “recognize the asset values ​​and which can be reused in clusters” existing hospital and take into account aspects such as ventilation, lighting, heat stroke, but also issues related to ergonomics, to facilitate mobility patients on simple tasks such as washing hands.

To these points joins the psychological well-being that can result from several attention as the room decor or the reassuring image of a ceiling for patients who spend most of their time lying in bed.
It is “assumed that this feeling of pleasantness, welfare, is conducive to healing factor, [as well as] also helps to heal the issue psychological, “emphasized the architect

Ana Pennies spoke to the agency Lusa the purpose of conducting the Gulbenkian Health Forum 2015:. Health and Architecture in Dialogue, on Wednesday, session in which the researcher participates to comment the intervention of the British architect Charles Jenks and answer the question “Can the architecture affect your health?”. The UK expert will present “Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres” (care centers for cancer patients) result of the work of his wife “to mitigate the damages of the life extension process aimed at children”, as stated Ana Pennies.

For the investigator of the IST is in contemporary schedule realize that “the issue of health is closely linked to the well-being, with architecture and urbanism” and is a function of these disciplines create better places for people living in the cities, in urban areas in public facilities, jobs, homes and “work before problems occur.” “If we have a healthier city if we live in more welcoming places that promote more well-being , life is easier and a lot healthier, “he stressed.