AID Center: An Immunization and Prevention Center for Communicable Diseases and Viruses Emphasizing Healthcare Architecture
Name of Proponent: Centina Andrea Mae Obille Centeno, Ron Verdote
Name of Thesis Adviser: Ar. Ryan U. Baking
School: National Science of College & Technology
Year of Defense: 2023
THESIS SYNOPSIS
Background of the Study:
Isolation areas and vaccination centers are considered one of the country's top priorities for healthcare facilities. The facilities for the contamination of viruses by the affected patients in the Philippines are presently being provided in public and private hospitals. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, hotels, motels, and hostels were used to provide beds for infected patients. As per the immunization activities in all regions of the country, colosseums, public classrooms, malls, barangay halls, and public courts became the major areas that provided vaccination activities.
Statement of the Problem:
Public and private hospitals in the Philippines are tasked with accommodating patients with communicable diseases, often within the same facilities as non-infected patients, increasing the risk of cross-contamination. The study aims to develop an architectural and planning-based solution for a specialized medical institute by evaluating design approaches, space programming, circulation, and healthcare design strategies that ensure user comfort, safety, efficiency, and adaptability. Therefore, the study purposely aims to provide resolution to the concerns of the titled topic.
1. How can the design approach and architectural planning of the institute provide relevance for subsequent users?
2. How can the planning approach affect the comfort and traffic of the end and professional users of the proposed institute?
3. What are the relative spaces under the specialization of the institute that can provide specialized medical and healthcare services?
4. What are the design strategies that can be incorporated under the concept of healthcare architecture to provide proper planning for the institute?
5. How can the structure be efficient enough to cater to its intended users and uses?
6. What are the possible design ideas for the center that are bound under the new normal spaces to be added for the effective approach of the desired healthcare?
7. How can the design of the institute introduce innovation in terms of providing new planning-focusing services under the speciality of medical and health care?
Objectives of the Study:
The study specifically aims the following:
1. To produce a healthcare center design that focuses on the containment and immunization of patients with communicable diseases and viruses.
2. To apply proper architectural space utilization in the facilities that provide the standards of the healthcare system.
3. To provide a proper center that would cater to the confined individuals and a recovery center that offers specialization in terms of medical treatment for the different kinds and conditions of communicable diseases and virus infections.
4. To provide recognition for the special needs of the patients through justifications of architectural elements in the design of the project
5. To lessen the widespread transmission of diseases, both airborne and direct, through the use of the specified facilities.
6. For the local community to have access to the proper center that immunizes, offer facilities for containment, and provide treatment for the use of public residents.
7. To provide effective architectural space programming regarding the containment of the individual with communicable diseases.
Methodology:
Gathering of Data
The collection of data provides the study with validity and structure through the gathered information on a certain problem of the proposed study. The feasibility of the study is justified by the gathered data that was inflicted on the study of the research paper. In the gathering of data, the researcher conducted actual and internet-based research to provide information to back up the purpose of the study. In terms of site data, the researcher conducted site visits to provide data that can be gathered through the use of the municipal CLUP (Comprehensive Land Use Plan).
The data can be collected using two types of methods: the qualitative method and the quantitative method. Through the use of the quantitative method, the statistical aspect of the data is collected in the following ways: polls, questionnaires, and surveys. The qualitative method revolves around physical observations, interviews, and archival record reviews. The Collected data should reflect the proposed study and showcase valid information to back up the main goal and the problem of the research study.
The researcher conducts data gathering for the study revolving around the topic of infectious diseases through internet-based information and literature that possess valid information about the subject. The main sources of the collected data are the Department of Health, medical-related blogs, literature on the subject, and international and local news articles about the health systems and disease cases in the country. The data that revolves around the space requirements needed for the projects, such as standards of space utilization and spaces intended for the level 3 hospitals, is gathered through internet-based reviews and case studies. The Department of Health provides the list of space requirements, while in the review method, the National Building Code of the Philippines is the source of the standards needed for the study.
Summary of Findings
The main purpose of the study is to provide proper facilities that cater to infected individuals with communicable diseases, specifically airborne types. The study identifies the problem within the space management and programming of the existing medical institute in the country that provides traditional space utilization within its planning. It concludes that the existing health institutes in the country only provide a small number of specialized hospitals for infectious and communicable diseases. The surge of the 2020 virus COVID-19 serves as a critical measurement of the capacity of the country’s healthcare capability in terms of medical care and immunization. Due to the scope of the study, it is proven that the architectural approach in terms of planning the type of hospital catering to communicable diseases is effective towards the safety of the end users pertaining to the new normal and standards of the Department of Health. To establish the need for architectural design stages, every activity is guided by medical and architectural evidence from baseline investigations.
Conclusion:
The study concludes that the national crisis in the planning of a proper isolation center for communicable diseases focusing on containing airborne type communicable diseases such as COVID-19 acute respiratory infections (URIs), Lower respiratory tract infections (LRIs), Influenza A (H1N1), Bird Flu (Avian Influenza), Ebola, Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease, Influenza (SARS), and monkeypox is lacking in the medical institute in the Philippines. The outdated planning of medical institutes under the specialization of treating and containing communicable diseases reflects the scarcity that the country faced during the height of the COVID-19 2020 pandemic. The planning and proper space utilization of specific specialized practices of treatment for communicable diseases could result in a more effective way of containing the virus within the infected individual. Providing proper facilities to cater to the public and to be maintained as an infected person with the specific diseases could help improve medical practices and healthcare in the country.
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