Requalificar: uma proposta para o pátio da feira livre de Marechal Deodoro, Alagoas

Abstract

This paper presents a proposal for the requalification of the Marechal Deodoro free fair, based on a study of its current spatial conditions. The fair is a democratic space that stimulates social interaction and turns the street into a familiar environment. Marechal Deodoro has the fair as a cultural symbol of the city. A traditional weekly event, which for decades has moved the urban space, and currently brings an ephemeral vitality to the Poeira neighborhood. However, the relocation of the street market to a place unprepared to receive such activity has caused changes in the arrangement of the stalls, also maintaining the existing infrastructure problems, such as poor hygiene. Thus, there is the need to propose an architectural project that provides decent working and hygienic conditions to the market traders and consumers, besides promoting the urban and sociocultural relations of the city, as well as tourism, through commerce and culture, rescuing the identity of Marechal Deodoro's street market. It also aims to bring more visibility to the fair, which is currently surrounded by impermeable white walls, hidden from the city's dynamics, unlike the free character it once had, when it was part of the city's aesthetics on weekends. The proposal will have as a guiding point the spatial requalification in order to provide better environmental conditions and consequently better conditions for the development of the activity at the site. The requalification is essential in the desired process of rescuing the original characteristics of the street market, because it interferes more than just in the territorial sphere, enhancing the cultural and landscape area, and above all economically, acting as a potentializer of economic activities in the region where it is adopted.