Praça sustentável: a educação ambiental como norteadora para o projeto de um espaço público

Abstract

Nowadays, ecological movements are discussed the preoccupations to practice awareness to the environmental situation in our planet (CUBA, 2011, p.2). According to 225 article in Brazilian Federal Constitutional, “(…) is an asset of common use and essential to a healthy quality of life, and both the Government and the community shall have the duty to defend and preserve it for present and future generations” (Brazil apud LOUREIRO, 2008, p. 3) the implantation to a public space should have a responsibility to promote “a educational moment to exercise de citizenship” (LOUREIRO, 2008, p.2). In this way, if one of functions to contemporary landscaping is a environmental interaction (BERGAMINI, 2009, p.9), this article intends study and propose a public space whose the principle is a environmental reflection about the sustainable, implementing the concepts practically and playfully. In this context, this article develops a public space draft for the population environmental education, to the community exist in the Bela Vista neighborhood, in Macaiba City east zone, contents to apply of triple bottom line (people, planet and profit). The public space suggested has the focus to interaction between the community and the environment, apply to concepts: low maintenance, bond between the population and the square, plantation natural species in the landscaping. Adapt the projetual methods of Bergamini (2009) and Brígido (2011), first it is do the theme literature review, after it is choose the intervention area. And, after the understanding to the projetual conditioning, it is studding which activities is better to that community and is according to projects goals, culminate, than, to the start to the proposal. Lastly, the area is zoned and choose the vegetation. During the conception, explore activities to kids and adults, such as a space to community counselor meetings, amphitheater to courses and talks, urban garden, playground, public gym and the landscaping using fruit trees and adapt shrubs. According to results shows, there is diversify sustainable urbans solutions. However, it is observed that in the community the most people go there at night, culminating in a project with night uses. To the landscape, nowadays the species are riparian vegetation, it is impossible use only locals species in the project.