Centro residencial para el adulto mayor en el municipio Floridablanca, Santander.

Abstract

The objective of this project is to design a residential center for 70 elderly people with moderate dependency in the municipality of Floridablanca, specifically in the neighborhood of La Paz, following the concepts of rationalist architecture, seeking to enhance the relationship of the complementary recreational spaces with the main spaces such as the rooms, which are the basis for the modulation of the different systems that integrate and allow the optimal functioning of the building. Starting with the specification of the residence among the different typologies according to the Ministry of Health and the entities that guarantee the integrity of the elderly in Colombia, the ergonomic characteristics of the elderly in general with their basic needs according to the predominant morbidities in this age group are also identified, supplying part of the demand of the municipality, since the problem of the lack of residential entities and the existence of residences with deficiencies that guarantee a dignified old age is evident. Thus, through the demographic analysis of Floridablanca, comprehensive attention and care is guaranteed by means of the building with capacity for 70 main users and complementary users to guarantee the accompaniment of the other activities. Likewise, a national reference "the grandfather's house in Tocancipá and the building for older adults in Portugal as an international reference is analyzed to reveal principles of spatial organization that constitute the architectural program with main and complementary spaces and how these can be adapted to the context of the municipality, evidencing the functionality by means of modulated and rationally organized spaces according to the user and responding correctly, notwithstanding the environmental conditions of the lot's surroundings and guaranteeing in the design the accessibility for the users and visitors of the same maintaining a direct relation of object (residential center), subject (elderly) and context (Floridablanca).