Terra: anteprojeto de um centro comunitário sustentável em Guarapes - Natal/RN

Abstract

This professional master's conclusion paper consists of an architectural project of a sustainable Community Center in the Guarapes neighborhood, western administrative region of Natal-RN, with emphasis on constructive alternatives of low environmental impact, aligned with bioclimatic strategies, and a technical report. In recent years, the search for new constructive systems has been constant, since natural resources are finite. What is intended to be presented in this work is the feasibility of using an ancestral, sustainable, and little-explored constructive system. Earth architecture reappears as a viable solution to the advancement of environmental degradation, as the constructive system has numerous advantages in terms of its use, especially from the local social and environmental context. Thinking about this, this work intends to present the rescue of the technique of architecture and construction with Earth as a viable solution with low environmental impact. As the Guarapes neighborhood does not have strategic community equipment, an attempt was made to develop a proposal for a Community Center using Terra architecture in order to encourage and expand knowledge about this sustainable construction system. For the development of the proposal, a theoretical-conceptual deepening of the theme was carried out, through a bibliographical review and studies of design references, which guided the development of the project and the definition of the concept, party, and architectural programming. In addition, the disciplines taken during the Program were essential to the project, which resulted in a proposal that was functional, sustainable, and of architectural quality at the level of the preliminary project.