Operação no abandono: proposta de intervenção projetual na antiga sede da Secretaria de Educação do Estado de Alagoas, Maceió – AL

Abstract

Architectural retrofit is a technique for revitalizing old buildings. Its objective is to transform buildings, adapting them to current needs, preserving the original architecture integrally or partially, promoting the building aesthetic improvement and valuation. The retrofit presents itself as intervention alternative for a building, due to two crucial factors: the exitence of a significant number of unused building in Brazil, resulting from an accelerated urbanization that occurred in the 20th century, and the need to renovation and/or adaptation of buildings that no longer support the current demands of the city. That adaptation takes place both in relation to bulding use itself and its technological/constructive efficiency and environmental comfort. The present work proposes the update of the former head office of the Secretary of Education of the State of Alagoas, in Maceió – AL. It encounter in complete abandonment and in a state of disrepair, degraded by the action of time and lack of use. The objective of this work is to rescue the building functionality and attractability through it’s institutional use – public school, refurbishing into an Educational Center capable to educate citizens. The bibliographical research about architectural retrofit, as well as the detailed study of similar cases were used as an important part of the methodology and as the basis for the design decisions. In this way, it was possible to obtain, at the end, an architectural project that absorve its surroundings currents demands, the environmental confort it requires and the retrofit concepts. The proposal preserved the historical main facade and side ones idealizing a new contemporary rear facade with a public open space, allowing a better use of the building and its surroundings demands.