From Community Houses to Community Health Places and Centres: an evolving model

Abstract

The theme of the Community House, as an evolution of that of Health, involves the extension of the functions but also of the representativeness and civil role of this new public service structure, thus prefiguring further prospects for identity development. However, the advancement of organizational and management planning, in the performance interrelation that marks the dimension of care in a social as well as medical sense, does not correspond to an equally developed design paradigm dedicated to physical, architectural spaces, capable of characterizing and providing a specific formal expression in terms of urban location, layout and figuration of these structures of socio-health decentralization. A contribution, that of the architectural project, which is also fundamental in contributing to making this new policy of healthcare decentralization supported by the programming of the PNRR communal, participatory and inclusive, i.e. urban.