Arquitetura cultural: anteprojeto de um centro cultural para o Bairro das Rocas, Natal/RN

Abstract

This Final Paper for the Architecture and Urbanism Course has as its theme the cultural architecture. The goal is to carry out an architectural draft of a cultural center for children and teenagers, aiming to promote culture and its benefits and help reduce violence in Rocas - a neighborhood in the East Administrative Zone of the city of Natal/RN. To develop this work, studies, research, area diagnoses, the evolution of the proposal, and the cultural center's preliminary project were carried out. Thus, this final graduation project is structured in introduction; on a theoretical basis in chapters 2 and 3, aiming to understand the culture, cultural centers, and violence, with a focus on the vulnerability of children and teenagers in terms of exposure to and practice of violence; chapter 4 proposes to carry out a diagnosis of the neighborhood and the area chosen to carry out the preliminary project for the Cultural Center, identifying the potential and feasibility of executing the project on the spot; chapter 5 presents indirect case studies and design references, and chapter 6 seeks to present the evolution of the project and the project definitions of the preliminary project of a cultural center for the neighborhood of Rocas.