Centro de salud mental comunitario

Resumen

The Community Mental Health Center Project, has as purpose, respond to the need to attend the mental health problem in the country and to have an adequate infrastructure for diagnosis and rehabilitation of affected people. Reinsert the patient in the community through architecture. The necessary research to undertake the project has been based on information provided by the Ministry of Health (MINSA), similar examples of projects in foreign countries and constant visits to mental health centers in Lima, where information has been received from specialized medical staff and of the own patients. This allowed the development of the architectural program, the design criteria and the theoretical framework for the project proposal. For the location of the Center, it was considered an urban location that presented the highest percentage of affected population, and a strong community interaction. The district of Villa el Salvador had these characteristics, as well as being an urban space that has great pedestrian and vehicular accessibility. The project is located in a corner, generating a public square that invites entry to the Center and a strong community interaction. As for the architectural composition, it has been taken in consideration to create spaces for the care and rehabilitation different from the conventional ones, and where the free areas, of circulation and being have been treated as a fundamental part to achieve the welfare of the patients. With all this, the project wants to be a model of architectural solution that contributes to solve this problem in Peru.