Miau Hospital Veterinário Público em Natal/RN: estudo preliminar.

Abstract

The veterinary care network in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, is inadequate. Veterinary clinics and hospitals are private and concentrated in specific areas of the city. In the entire municipality, the only public animal health facility is the Zoonosis Surveillance Unit, which in turn does not have its entire field of action in operation due to the lack of supplies and professionals for certain services. Therefore, this work aims to develop a preliminary study of a public veterinary hospital for the city of Natal/RN intended for small animals, especially dogs and cats. More specifically, the research aims to: 1) develop equipment compatible with the local veterinary care network; (2) explore the building's constructive rationality and spatial flexibility; (3) develop a formal solution that is appropriate for the well-being of animals and that is easily readable to the public. To this end, the following methodological procedures were carried out: literature review on hospital architecture, documentary research on the veterinary care network in Natal/RN, field research and development of an architectural project for a veterinary hospital, resulting in the public veterinary hospital building located in the current area of UVZ Natal. As a result, it was found that it is possible to use the current land of the Zoonosis Surveillance Unit to implement the veterinary hospital, in a single-story and expandable construction.