Vila ecológica urbana mediação entre o social e o ambiental: uma proposta arquitetônica e urbanística para uma área no bairro Altos do Calhau em São Luís - MA

Abstract

The scientific work seeks to understand several existing problems in Alto’s do Calhau neighborhood, an area in São Luís, Maranhão state, in witch the object of study is the overlapping of urban land use planning laws and the degradation of environmental areas caused by an expansion of an informal occupation. Tracing a chronological line from the advent of modernism, until the construction of Sao Luis’ urban disposition, seeking to understand the reason for the existence of such informal communities. After the historical study, apply as a mediating and repairing agent the implantation of an Urban Ecological Village, based on studies of similar projects, diagnosis of the study area, urban laws and personal interactions of the author, who is already a resident of the studied area.