2017_05_26_ARQ_publicacion_instalaciones

Teachers and researchers of the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra have recently published a book on "design of Hospital Facilities", directed by César Martín-Gómez and Camilo Domínguez, with the participation also of professors Joxean Medina, Carlos Naya and José Antonio Sacristán, and the student of doctorate Alba Lorente. The publication gathers works by medical students, with their interpretation of how to transfer the operational needs of different premises of work to professionals from other areas.

"When those who are now medical students start working, in one way or another, sooner or later, it is possible that they will be involved in the preparation of projects for an ophthalmology enquiry , the renovation of a operating room, the expansion of a laboratory or the hospital where they are performing gynecological check-ups, the rehabilitation of the health center where they attend pediatric consultations.... Degree At that moment, questions will arise such as: what information do they have to provide to the architects, what details should they give to the engineers in their technical specifications, how much is it going to cost," says Professor Martín-Gómez in his presentation of the book.

With these concerns as a starting point, in the 2014-15 academic year at the Degree in Medicine at the University of Navarra, a subject elective subject , taught by architects and called 'design of Hospital Facilities', was launched so that future doctors would be aware of the requirements, both architectural and technological, of their own environment of work.

"Achieving humanized and at the same time functional spaces, environments that are cared for and designed with rigor and precision, are undoubtedly a very positive experience for patients and their families," explains the author of the Prologue, Secundino Fernández, Dean of the School de Medicina.

The results of the book present "an optimistic vision of how it will be possible to contribute to the design, construction and maintenance of the hospitals that society will require in the future, from the work in a team multidisciplinary".

"Images of Urban Installations."

On the other hand, the same author has just published the book "Imágenes de instalaciones urbanas", together with Elena Maté Múgica (Arq'16). A publication that compiles in 124 pages photographs of the records of urban services of various cities in Spain and abroad. 

In their introduction, they explain that "it is not that we intend to turn what is not a work of art into a work of art, but to try to convey the beauty that these components of the contemporary city can contain".