Analysis of sustainability in the process of the building social rural houses using adobe and ceramic blocks: case of assentamento rural Pirituba II - Itapeva-SP

Author(s)

Fernando Machado Gonçalves da Silva

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD)
• Defense date: 2007-04-25

Examining board members

Akemi Ino; Evaldo Luiz Gaeta Espindola; Ercilia Hitomi Hirota

• Advisor: Akemi Ino

Abstract

Discussions about concepts, principles and strategies for practices more sustainable emphasize, considering time and geografic scales, the necessity of interacting several dimensions of sustainability: political, environment, social, economic and cultural. Besides dimensions of sustainability, for the choice of structural wall system in rural social habitation, it is important to consider: opinions of the future residents, characteristics of the place where the houses will be build, financial and environment resources, etc. The aim of this work is to analysis dimensions of sustainability in the process of the building of two houses, one of them built in adobe (brick made with soil and dried in sun) and the other built in ceramic blocks, at assentamento rural Pirituba II, Itapeva-SP/Brazil. It is important to mention that the overwhelming majority of families choose ceramic blocks for building their houses and only one family opts to adobe. For the study of the two houses was collected photographics and wrote registers during the building of them, besides interview with the residents. The result was the list of variable based on the dimensions of sustainability, indicating the importance of participation of the future residents in the process of construction, our interest, personal values and financial resources. With regard to analyse of sustainability, the adobe prevail in environment and economics dimensions while that the ceramic block prevail in social and cultural dimensions. (AU)