Museu do Seridó: adequação visando a segurança contra incêndio

Abstract

Buildings of historic interest often face difficulties to be approved by supervisory agencies, such as the Fire Department, mainly due to the need for physical interventions to meet the minimum fire safety conditions. Considering this, the present work of a professional master's degree, consisting of a technical report and a technical project of architectural intervention, revolves around the adequacy of the building of the Seridó Musem, located in the city of Caicó-RN, aiming at fire safety. The choice of theme was due to the proximity of the professional practice exercised by the author in the project sector of the Infrastructure Superintendence of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and the real demand to adapt the aforementioned building in order to meet the current needs of the museum. The main goal of the research is the development of a preliminary project to adapt the architecture of the Seridó Museum and its specific objective is to use the Fire and Panic Safety Code of Rio Grande do Norte and its Technical Instructions to represent the reality of the project. In addition, we seek to identify the possibilities and difficulties imposed by this type of building to the adequacy of the aforementioned regulations, as well as to observe the intervention recommendations proposed by the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN) and/or state and municipal protection and preservation agencies, in order to meet the requirements of fire safety and panic in the environment under study. For the development of the project, a theoretical-conceptual deepening on the subject was carried out, through bibliographic research and design reference study (precedent or related). Then, the architectural programming was conducted, from this base and with the help of the curricular components of the course, the design process was gradually being developed and mapped. Throughout the process, various forms of registration were made, from the initial stages of conditioning and design studies to the creation of the architectural proposal. The results achieved consist of the proposed retrofit of the Seridó Museum, with the objective of meeting fire safety standards and guidelines recommended by IPHAN and/or state and municipal protection and preservation agencies.