Parque dos Angicos: anteprojeto de um parque urbano para Angical do Piauí

Abstract

Urban parks are spaces intended for recreation, featuring components of the natural landscape and also buildings for cultural and/or administrative activities. The existence of these spaces can improve urban microclimates and the practice of physical exercise, collaborating with the quality of life. The city of Angical do Piauí has just over 6000 inhabitants, was founded in 1954 and does not have wellstructured public places for leisure and recreation. Within this premise, the present work aims to elaborate a draft proposal for an urban park for the municipality, aiming to provide a better possibility of use and appropriation of public open spaces. To achieve the objective, a bibliographic survey was carried out on topics such as: public open spaces, collaborative urbanism, urban parks, among others. Institutional data research to obtain socioeconomic, geographic and environmental information, elaboration of online questionnaires for collaborative and urban diagnosis, and the development of design guidelines to obtain the needs program to be followed, based on physical and environmental conditions. The guiding principles applied were connection, based on key points such as uniting and belonging; flexibility, referring to the promotion of attractive spaces that allow use by different age groups; and permeability, with two aspects, soil permeability, as the park is located in a flooded area, and visual permeability. This proposal seeks to provide residents with leisure and cultural equipment, in addition to becoming a reference for the region, stimulate social exchanges and the feeling of belonging to the place, being promoters of socioeconomic and cultural development.