Propuesta de diseño de un centro de día para el Barrio Terrazas, en Bucaramanga, Santander

Abstract

The day center is a space that offers day care, designed to provide support to the elderly, providing basic services for their physical, mental and emotional development, to live actively and with dignity the stage of old age. The next project is the design of an equipment for the elderly that is located in the Terrazas neighborhood, in the city of Bucaramanga, Santander, this being one of the main cities with a high rate of growth in this type of population. The objective of the project is based on the creation of a space that provides comfort and social well-being, where activities are carried out that help in the improvement of their physical, mental and emotional capacities. The exercise consists of designing spaces that require architectural development, responding to the needs that people have in this stage, thought through systematic work that includes several stages; Different typologies of buildings that provide this service to the older adult community were analyzed, specifying what type of spaces are necessary to provide support and supply basic needs; An urban analysis was found in order to understand the context where the building is implanted, responding to its surroundings and how it relates to the community, in the same way giving solutions to different problems found in the sector; finally the design of the building is developed through three components; conceptual, formal and spatial that respond to different factors; use, accessibility, implantation, relationship of the environment and spatial comfort.