Spaces for Community Health Care Architectural Approaches for Health Promotion in the Contemporary City

Abstract

The redefinition of spaces for community health care has become increasingly necessary, especially considering the systemic vulnerabilities exposed by the pandemic, which heightened institutional awareness and prompted reforms in territorial care.

To avoid being constrained by ongoing redefinition while maintaining responsiveness to contingent issues, the design of community health care spaces can benefit from the concept of authorship to ensure a degree of stability beyond immediate contingencies.

This paper proposes a design-driven research interrogating authorship in its capacity to construct a specific narrative engaging with extra-disciplinary domains, such as health and social care, through an architectural design perspective.

Architectural authorship, transcending a functional and parameter-driven approach, enables the shaping of new spatial realities and the unveiling of hidden potentials. This is crucial to shape a paradigm shift that calls for urban spaces distinct from existing archetypes: new urban centralities, public interiors for community health promotion.

Keywords: community health care, urban centrality, public interior