O Instituto dos Ambulatórios do Hospital das Clínicas: o projeto e o presente

The work analyzes the work of the “Instituto dos Ambulatórios do Hospital das Clínicas” its conception, its conditions of use in the period of its inauguration and the moment. Projected by Rodrigo Lefèvre and built in years 1970 during the period where it worked in the Hidroservice, the Institute of the Medical Clinic (Ambulatory ones) concentrates some questions derived from the continuity of the Modern Movement after the military blow and the AI-5, as well as, the maintenance current of the building after been used by three decades. The Institute is a project of magnifying of the Central Building of the Ambulatory ones, physically exceeded for the growth of the Clinics’ complex. The total area, that includes a Cultural Center, has 115.000 m2, its complexity in equipment terms and the amount of subsystems, allowed to Lefèvre to extend his professional practical, to deepen his architectural references and to develop his conception of public work. Lefèvre directly revealed its main concern with the project, relative to the time of use of the building, sending itself to the fact of the project to be a magnifying of one another building that in little time became obsolete. The relation cost-benefit that one determined solution, or conception of project caused, would have to be on to the key concept of the architectural party adopted, to know, the serenity in the use of environments. Even in a huge work Lefèvre had try to keep its concepts architectural and its conceptions of the work in the seedbed, adding in this in case that, beyond the laborers, tracers and designers. This project and others of its phase in the Hidroservice demonstrate as its architectural conceptions were refined and as it made use of the best possibilities techniques, without restrictions, when these if showed adequate. Words keys Served spaces and spaces maids; modern architecture; project.