Casa equilíbrio: Modelo de Habitação de Interesse Social em Natal/RN

Abstract

In Brazil, social interesting housing - SIH - is identified, mostly, as projects of precarious construction pattern, without architectural, urban and sociocultural qualities. These include energy efficiency and spatial flexibility. In this work we seek to develop a model of Housing of Social Interest of typology single story house on the banks of Avenida Prefeito Omar O ́Grady, in the neighborhood of Pitimbu, in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. The process took place between the stages of data collection, architectural party and preliminary project. In addition to the application of a remote questionnaire, the way of dissemination of the questionnaire was through social networks, with the intention of reaching the people living in the Neighborhood of Pitimbu specifically the Satelite City Housing Complex. The questionnaire aimed to collect information about the renovations and expansions in the houses to verify possible changes in environmental comfort inside the property. The data collected contributed to the direction of the project prioritizing the formation of favorable environments for thermal, luminous and acoustic comfort and the different transformations of spatial flexibility. As a result, it presents a housing with three possibilities of expansion and alterations integrating with the environmental comfort of the residence. First, the proposal with the increase of residents; second, with expansion of the living room with the exclusion of users; third proposition was with the addition of a commercial use in the residence. Finally, the monograph presents the process of study of a popular dwelling, with emphasis on environmental comfort and spatial flexibility integrated with the projective guidelines in housing.