Hospital de Isolamento de Mont Serrat: uma análise acerca da relação do edifício com a cidade

Abstract

In order to reduce the impact of the yellow fever outbreak and isolate patients from the rest of the population, the Mont Serrat Isolation Hospital kept in its relationship with the city inherent aspects related to improvement policies of the Brazilian public health. The Hospital foundation was based on hygienism, a nineteenth-century medical theory that can be observed through the actions taken by the hospital concerning the sanitary conditions of the city and later by the building of a New Hospital in a pavilion architectural style. The present work presents an analysis of the Mont Serrat Isolation Hospital and its relationship with the city of Salvador from a theoretical and critical research of its architecture in a historical perspective. By means of texts written by doctors and political leaders on health improvement actions and their connection with the architecture of the Hospital it was possible to observe that Mont Serrat Isolation Hospital of salvador responded to it by reforming its spatiality to medical postulates and highlighted solutions focused on the local culture and the political context of the time. Therefore, it is a building which should be seen in its spatial composition as part of Salvador health history as well as a Cultural Health Heritage.