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Design process and methods of evaluation for collective housing: disciplinary dialogues between Brazil and the Netherlands

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Author(s):
Cássia Bartsch Nagle
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI)
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Examining board members:
Leandro Silva Medrano; Francisco Borges Filho; Paulo Julio Valentino Bruna; Nelson Jorge Amorim Mota
Advisor: Leandro Silva Medrano
Abstract

Nowadays, much of the housing production in Brazil is the result of market forces unconcerned with essential architectural and urban issues. On the other hand, some developed countries, such as the Netherlands, have been standing out in housing production across several aspects, such as quality, quantity, innovation, regulations and structuring of design processes. It is hypothesized that, in the Netherlands, critical disciplinary construction, involving practices and methods, resulted in wellstructured production, evaluation and process mechanisms that contributed to the construction of a housing architecture consecrated by the specialized literature of the field. Meanwhile, in Brazil, architectural and urban quality is not properly measured throughout the design stages, because in the last decades there have been no significant advances made in methods, practices or critical elements. Therefore, the objective of this research is to document and critically analyze the design process, especially in the initial stages of conception, of contemporary collective housing controlled by the public authorities, in the Netherlands and Brazil, seeking out similarities and, especially, the differences between the two countries, taking into account their cultural, social and economic divergences. In order to do so, cases of contemporary collective housing in Amsterdam and São Paulo were analyzed, gathering and organizing documents on their design process and design and methodology guidelines for the construction of residential buildings and neighborhoods, as well as methodologies for project analysis and evaluation. In addition, these projects were assessed and compared, considering their design and methodological basis. In this way, a contribution can be made to the development, in Brazil, of a disciplinary body of theory and project criticism, design processes and evaluation instruments, and to the discussion about the country\'s housing production in contrast to the reality found in the Netherlands. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 15/08104-5 - Contemporary collective housing: critical analysis of the design process in Brazil and in the Netherlands.
Grantee:Cássia Bartsch Nagle
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate