“Canteiros para todos”: uma proposta de intervenção urbanística na avenida Campos Sales, Natal/RN

Abstract

The proposal of this research consists of a elaboration of a preliminary draft of urban intervention entitled “Canteiros para todos” on Campos Sales Avenue in Natal (RN), designed to mitigate the existing deficits related to public open spaces with mainly leisure use, responding to the demands of an increasingly reclusive society, but that needs to boost urban vitality in a planned and integrated way. This paper seeks a multidisciplinary discussion, using architecture as a facilitator of processes, idealizing spaces with practices that go from different physical activities; bike paths; areas of contemplation with afforestation; rest areas, even spaces for animals. The main goals during the initial stage of the project were: to investigate the possibilities of performance of architecture in the contribution of areas that could benefit the coexistence as a social and concrete form that privileges contact between people; to analyze the real demands of the selected spaces - the beds - the focus of the paper; and to investigate the characteristics of the immediate surroundings to articulate their potentialities and direct them to the construction and maintenance of public open spaces that promote relations of belonging with the place. The research instruments were scientific articles directed to the universe of study - urban intervention in beds - seeking the guidelines also through standards and aligned with the study of direct and indirect references. This stage involved research on websites, field visits and it was also expected the application of questionnaires to collect information, however with the SARS COVID 19 pandemic, the methodology changed and some instruments were not possible to be applied. With the development of the research it was possible to realize the architecture plays an important role as a space-modifying agent improving people’s quality of life through humanizing interventions that bring the human being as a drawing scale.