CRESCIMENTO FÍSICO EM ESTRUTURAS HOSPITALARES E SUA RELAÇÃO COM O TERRITÓRIO - Estudo de Caso

Hospital structures within a historical analysis have always reflected the society where they were inserted, not only in aspects of scientific development with the use of medical knowledge for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, where we can say that it would be the larger objective of this establishment, but Also in issues as debated and studied today, as the availability and use of the territory where they are inserted, thus relating as the value that is given to natural resources, both in the design of spaces as well as in their use and maintenance, attitudes that are linked To a sustainable posture. The objective of this article is to discuss, in a local aspect, the relation of the use of the territory in a microscale vision of the process of growth of an EAS (Health Care Establishment), having as object of study a hospital that was built in the 1950 in a  municipality in the metropolitan region of Curitiba that for almost 70 years its growth has not undergone planning, consequently a widespread obsolescence of its built spaces, as well as the availability for its future physical organization. Keywords: Hospital Architecture, Territoriality, Sustainability.