Live: Lara Kaiser presents architecture for life

The childhood dream was to be a doctor. Save lifes. But, over time, Lara Kaiser understood that her future was directly linked to architecture. And it was in college that she, indeed, met, when he discovered he could, somehow, unite two wills.

A segment of the profession allows health spaces to be designed, medical and hospital facilities, starting from scratch or adapting existing buildings. Role she has held for many years. And that was the conversation with the architect Lara Kaiser in the profile @elianerevestimentos this Thursday (17).

For five years as director of healthcare at the São Paulo office of Perkins&Will, Lara works with a team of 80 architects, currently with about 20 ongoing projects. In this period, it has noticed an increasing movement of projects of hospitals and health units being implanted in already existing buildings and that were not necessarily designed for this use.

The behavior, second Lara, may reflect the economy. With the pandemic, there was a fall from class A to B, drop in health plans, or transition to more affordable health plans and, consequently, an increased demand for health care. A need that the new times have highlighted.

But while starting from scratch represents more freedom of creation, adapting an existing building has its advantages. More time is gained with the possibility of expanding the service network in a short time, giving flow to demand. Facilitates the deployment of satellite units in several regions, decreasing the flow in large hospital centers.

Not to mention the sustainable impact promoted by the reuse of buildings that already exist and are unused, reducing the need for further extraction of natural resources, required by every construction that starts from the plant. If on the one hand there are advantages, the challenges are no less.

Far from being projects based on the idea that everything is just white tiles everywhere, health constructions are bold and innovative, especially when the patient requires special attention, in the case of environments suitable for the elderly and children.

Then comes the creative side of the professional, and the sleeping side of a doctor who was almost, by Lara Kaiser. It is when you can unite knowledge and feeling in favor of lives that need health, but, also, a little joy and distraction in the space where the healing process lives.

Watch on @elianerevestimentos.