CENTRO DE AISLAMIENTO GUAYAQUIL – VÍA LA COSTA

Abstract

Presently, the necessity to reinforce the infrastructure of the healthcare system is situated among the main problematics of the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Therefore, this thesis proposes a plan of architectural design for an isolation center with the objective of harboring low-to-mid risk patients as the means to allow hospitals to preserve their capacity and prioritize the needs of high risk patients instead. The project is situated in Vía a la Costa, in an area distanced from the center of the city and with potential for urban development in the near future. Finally, the purpose of the center is to provide a safe space for isolation and avoid what could otherwise represent the collapse of the city’s healthcare system due to an inadequate distribution of medical demand.