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| Author(s): |
Patricia Rodrigues Samora
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2010-02-01 |
| Examining board members: |
João Sette Whitaker Ferreira;
Laura Machado de Mello Bueno;
Fabio Mariz Gonçalves;
Erminia Terezinha Menon Maricato;
Ricardo de Sousa Moretti
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| Advisor: | João Sette Whitaker Ferreira |
| Abstract | |
This thesis proposes a method for the development of housing units addressed to slums upgrading programs, aiming to improve the built environment in these areas. It was composed based on the housing dynamics of Sao Paulo that led to the emergence of slums, one of the main housing alternatives for low-income people in this city. The proposed method considers the two housing models found in those areas: self-built houses that will be consolidated by the upgrading and land regularization, and the new housing units built during the intervention to house part or all of the residents removed. The underlying concept of housing quality in this work is that the object constructed must be suitable to the needs of the households as well as to the specificities of the settlement where it will be inserted. For the first set of housing situation - the self-built houses - the work provides three housing indicators to qualify the interventions in those buildings and assist in decision making regarding the selection of those that should be removed. As for the second housing situation - the new housing units -, performance requirements were established for the categories of \"Habitability\", \"Dimension\" and \"Identity and Flexibility\", organized according to four housing scales: \"compartments\", \"housing unit\", \"building\" and \"block\". Those requirements were conceived to be applied during the design phase and were defined according to the following parameters: the elements of social housing programs in Brazil that frequently lead to inadequacy of the built environment; the elements of architectural and urban housing projects to be used as a reference; the characteristics of the slums in the metropolitan region of São Paulo; other similar methods to support housing projects, among other sources. The method was consolidated after its application over four housing types developed within the slum upgrading projects of Vila Nova Jaguaré and Jardim Olinda, which were part of the Bairro Legal slum upgrading interventions at São Paulo Municipality. This exercise allowed the proposition of project guidelines based on quality parameters and performance requirements to ensure the development of housing and urbanistic projects suited to the specificities of the slums and to the socio-economic and cultural characteristics of their residents. Those guidelines were conceived for settlements with high occupancy rates that distinguish the studied favelas of Sao Paulo. However, its important that the upgrading project and its new housing units are part of a wider housing policy, able to provide other housing solutions that, together, could help decrease the dense occupation rates of slum areas, thus ensuring better urban environments. (AU) | |