Masterplan paisagístico para a conservação hídrica: Parque das Águas no bairro Benedito Bentes, Maceió/AL

Abstract

Considering the importance of enhancing urban landscaping, this work arises from two needs: the mitigation of environmental damage resulting from insufficient urban drainage, and the lack of qualified public open spaces for leisure, in the Benedito Bentes neighborhood. Seeking to contribute to meeting these needs, in order to reconcile their solutions, research was carried out to understand the different types of open spaces and their multiple relationships; the way in which human actions, such as urbanization, interfere with the hydrological cycle and how drainage solutions can reverse the respective losses; and three urban parks were studied to understand how they simultaneously fulfill their environmental and social function. After constructing the theoretical framework, a physical-territorial and social diagnosis was prepared based on on-site visits, data collected through informal conversations with residents and agents from institutions in the study area, and the author's own perceptions, as resident of the Benedito Bentes neighborhood. Finally, a masterplan was created with landscape guidelines and the activity program and zoning of the proposed interventions were defined, transforming an extensive urban void into an urban park (Parque das Águas) that aims to preserve the infiltration and runoff of rainwater, in order to protect the sources of the Jacarecica and Riacho Doce rivers, the objective of this final graduation work.