Casa “Sorriso”: anteprojeto arquitetônico de uma Casa de Apoio destinada às crianças com câncer e suas famílias

Abstract

The infantile cancers can be considered under cure when precociously detected and followed by aadequated chemiotherapical treatment. The significant angment of cases occorred in the last years and teh lack of adequated spaces to lodge the sick persons of low icome in São Luís movited the development of this study. Its main goal is to elaborate teh anteproject of Architecture of a house of support destinated to attend the children under the age group from 0 to 15 years old with cancer and also their relatives. This field reserarch encloses a little of the history and the appearance of cancer in the world and in Brazil, giving emplases to the first initiatives directed to the combat fo the decese in the State fo Maranhão as well as the origin of the houses of support, detaching the main goals, the target public, infrastructure, executed performances, among others to it et was paid visits to similar establishments, foundations and hospitals, as well as researches about the environmental confort, technics and materials to costruction and also a supportable architecuture, the results demonstrated the concretization of a modern and functional building, taking nito consideration the bioclimatical aspects of the region and characteristics of the existent surrounding.