Intervention in Modern Architecture: Restoration and Requalification of the Santa Terezinha Hospital
modern architecture; modern heritage; hospital architecture; sanatorium; restoration.
This work, named “Intervention in Modern Architecture: Restoration and Requalification of the Santa Terezinha Hospital”, falls within the scope of the discussion regarding the preservation of modern heritage. The Santa Terezinha Hospital was built as a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, and is currently known as Octávio Mangabeira Specialized Hospital, a reference in the treatment of respiratory diseases. It is located in the neighbourhood of Pau Miúdo, in the city of Salvador. Its construction began in 1937, and it was opened in 1942. During those decades, the architecture of the city of Salvador went through the transition process between the art déco and modern styles, and the Santa Terezinha Hospital interestingly represents this hybridism, although it has almost fully assumed modernity. However, both for being a hospital, constantly subjected to changes, and for being a modern heritage, hardly recognized for its values, the Santa Terezinha hospital has been through quite insensitive interventions. The proposed project, thus, aims to rescue its modern values and update them according to contemporary technical requirements for the treatment of respiratory diseases.