Código de edificações para todos : uma forma de tornar o Código de Urbanismo e Edificações de Maceió mais acessível, com evidência no Uso Residencial 1

Abstract

The present work discusses the municipal urban planning instrument known as the Code of Works both at national level and in the city of Maceió. An entire historical analysis of the urbanization process in Brazil and Maceió is carried out in order to understand the scenario in which the cities found themselves until the decision to implement urban planning instruments was made, with a retrospective of the moments of claim of the Urban Reform Movement, going through the approval of the City Statute to an analysis of how such instruments currently behave. The main focus is on: despite the Code of Urbanism and Buildings of Maceió (Código de Obras) being in effect since February 8, 2007, it is still little known by Maceió society. This, through a survey carried out, showed that they are more used to building and renovating their own homes without the help of a qualified professional, resulting in constructions that do not follow the established parameters and are devoid of comfort, safety and pleasant aesthetics. Generally, those who know or have used the code are students or professionals in the field of civil construction, and even so, they claim to have difficulty reading and understanding the Code in its entirety because, as it is legislation, it presents a legal language that is difficult to understand. Also considering the structure in which the legislation was elaborated, with more than 170 pages of dense and running texts, using the strategy of using tables of parameters only at the end of the code, being necessary to go back and forth in the text to understand it in its entirety, and the total absence of images that illustrate and explain the textual content, make the code increasingly inaccessible. Therefore, the present work suggests the creation of an illustrated booklet of the urban parameters of the Code of Urbanism and Buildings of Maceió - AL for works and projects of Residential Use 1, with the objective of instructing and qualifying students and newly graduated civil construction professionals through of a better understanding of the current legislation making it even more accessible through a simple and direct language complemented by graphic expression.