Análise técnica de adequações arquitetônicas de prevenção ao COVID-19 em escolas públicas municipais de Maceió-AL

Abstract

With the new global scenario related to the Covid-19 (Sars-Cov-2) pandemic, the collapse of both private and public health networks was observed, and as an emergency measure the City of Maceió launched Decree No. 8,846, on March 16, 2020. It contained measures for social isolation, quarantine, prevention of crowding, and suspension of school classes in the municipal network. Thus began a great challenge in the public school network in an attempt to adapt to remote education. Major changes also occurred in everyday life, in the economy, in commerce, in health, and even inside the homes of every citizen. After four months of the pandemic, the Municipal Secretary of Education (SEMED) started planning to adapt the physical structure of the schools in the network in order to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus. These adjustments were made in most of the municipal schools, both in the Municipal Center for Children Education (CMEI) and in the Elementary Schools. SEMED has also structured a health protocol that has been made available on the Maceio City Hall website. However, there is no guideline for the issues of physical adaptations in schools, which makes, in general, the architectural adaptations fragile, from the normative point of view. In order to analyze this scenario, the developed Final Graduation Work (TFG) studies how the adjustments were developed, aiming to analyze the adjustments, characterize the four schools and propose project guidelines. The methodology that will be addressed is the Ergonomic Methodology for the Built Environment (MEAC) developed by Villarouco (2009). Four schools in the city of Maceió were analyzed, and the results pointed to pre-existing inadequacies in these buildings, as the already existing low quality of these spaces became evident.