Conexões urbanas e habitação: estudo preliminar para habitação de interesse social em São Luís - MA

Abstract

The most indispensable meaning of housing reveals that only through the architecture that values the people’s day lives is possible to build a culture of appropriation of the space where one lives. In this respect, the construction of an identity in the urban space through their appropriation means the breaking of excluding paradigms that are based on the financial condition as the value of each individual, what should be intolerable in the construction of health cities. The housing as part of a larger urban system than itself has a capacity of interfere in external relations to the private environment of the home and it is at this point that its influence on society can build healthy habits or not. The architecture for low-income people, although it is different in terms of materials and constructive system (the most economically affordable one is opted for) should in no way have an inferior creative conception, because rather the architecture is for people, and everyone is equal in nature. The housing manifests its true purpose when it takes into account both the impact on the physical environment and and its impact on society, by dignifying the lives of people who are on the verge of their most important rights and also by democratizing spaces. Building this reality through housing estates intended for the low-income class means advancing architecturally and socially. Building for everyone is much more important than building for whom, this is the real challenge of building housing estates for people, especially low-income people.