The Immediate Health Bus – O-SI will be a primary healthcare equipment, modular and mobile, of fast implementation and long range. The project foresees the re-use of up to 4.800 urban vehicles recently decommissioned from São Paulos’s bus fleet, and the adaptation of its internal spaces for clinical use with focus on telemedicine, allowing a bigger flexibility and lower operational costs.

Urban vehicles decommissioned from São Paulos’s bus fleet
Foto/ photo São Paulo Antiga / Milton Jung [Creative Commons]

We identified that one of the indirect effects resulting from the current pandemic is the decrease in the population use of hospitals (public and private), and other health system equipments, due to fear contagion by Covid-19, which may result in numerous health issues for residents, not directly related to the virus.

Paulo Machado de Carvalho Municipal Stadium occupied by the campaign hospital for the treatment of Covid-19
Foto/ photo Carlos Bardi/ divulgação [WPP/ Prefeitura de São Paulo]

Anhembi Exhibition Pavilion occupied by the Covid-19 treatment field hospital
Foto/ photo Acervo Museu dos Eventos / Bruno Santos [Anhembi Parque / Folhapress]

Designed in order to follow the spatial needs of medical modernization, the O-SI will offer a safe option for preliminary care and treatment of common diseases during and after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mapping of Covid-19 cases in Brazil
Imagem divulgação/ disclosure image [Democratic Architects]

Occupation of hospital beds due to Covid-19 cases in Southeastern Brazil
Imagem divulgação/ disclosure image [Democratic Architects]

When the current crisis is over, the project will be scaled and multiplied, and will function at the forefront of basic health units, operating off-grid when necessary, in a technological and punctual way with pre-scheduling and screening by mobile app. By this way reducing costs for the health system and democratizing universal access to health and quality care; no queues and no surprises.

The project is currently in Detail Design, phase and the first operational prototype is expected to be presented in a month.

data sheet

project
Immediate Health Bus – O-SI

area
32m2 por módulo

architecture
Andre Enrico Cassettari Zanolla,  Antonio Roberto Zanolla, Rennan Carlos, Amanda Cunha (authors) / Democratic Architects

client
Prefeitura de São Paulo

consulting
Dr. Sun Rei Lin (Hospital São Paulo / Unifesp)