Além da casa: masterplan para requalificação urbana do Conjunto Habitacional Jarbas Oiticica em Rio Largo/AL

Abstract

Public open spaces are essential for urban dynamics. Streets, squares and parks are connected and infrastructure for different activities such as mobility and leisure. On walkins and stops, social exchanges can occur unpretentiously and strengthen as community relations. In these spaces, different practices can be simulated or inhibited depending on factors such as the quality of the space, the options for activities available and the safety of the place. Bearing this in mind and from the reports about the lack of infrastructure and security in social housing projects produced by the "Minha Casa Minha Vida" program, it was aimed understand the role that architecture and urbanism play in the creation of spaces that favor social exchanges, and, from the analysis of a house complex, propose guidelines for the urban requalification of the place. For this, the Jarbas Oiticica housing complex, located in the city Rio Lrgo/AL and which has the majority of the population from the state capital, Maceió, was analyzed. Initially, the concepts related to the theme were researched, in order to provide the necessary theoretical support for the research. Then, it discusses the context of the city in which it is inserted, the immediate surroundings of the complex and the socioeconomic characteristics of the population. After this initial data survey, the work focuses on Jarbas, analyzing the space through the elaboration of maps that spatialize the new uses given to the place, as well as issues related to security, it presents cultural dynamics and practices and, finally, highlights problems and potentialities that allow the identification of structuring areas. Finally, the work presents design guidelines, with a masterplan that proposes the requalification of public open spaces, so that they do not create even more social barriers, instead, that they become a potentializing means for the good actions and transformations that occur in space.