CENTRO DE REHABILITACIÓN INTEGRAL Y HOTEL PARA PERSONAS CON DISCAPACIDAD DE LA PROVINCIA DEL GUAYAS UBICADO EN LA CIUDAD DE GUAYAQUIL ECUADOR

Abstract

In Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2014) there are approximately 140 million people with disabilities, of whom only three per cent meet their needs. In the province of Guayas, Ecuador, according to data from the 2010 Population and Housing Census conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), 206825 people report having permanent disabilities, of which only five percent receive attention Medical and rehabilitation needs. It is for this reason that this project has as central objective "To design a Center of Integral Rehabilitation and Hotel (CRIH) for People with Disabilities in Guayaquil that allows to improve the quality of life of the users". In order to achieve this purpose, we analyzed the problematic from a medical and architectural point of view, reviewing bibliographies referring to the subject and similar cases within the Latin American context. With this, an architectural program was obtained that satisfies the spatial, functional and perceptual needs of a CRIH; Resulting in a building that provides optimal prevention and rehabilitation of disabilities.