Da casa ao lar: pela humanização das unidades de acolhimento de crianças e adolescentes em Natal/RN

Abstract

This work presents the opportunity to point out guidelines for the design of an Institutional Host Unit in Natal city, focusing on the space humanization, expressed by the “House to home” term, as it is an important governmental program to strengthen family and community ties for the well-being of its users, children and teenagers in social vulnerability state. Aiming the conception of a qualified architectural space for its users, three interventional aspects in the developed proposal were determined: space flexibility, thermoacoustic comfort criteria and indoor-outdoor integration. We know that to achieve a humanized space, different aspects must be analyzed, but due to time limitation and to this work in particular, only the three criteria specified above will be addressed. This paper structure is organized into six sections, in which we can approach the theoretical-conceptual framework: Humanized Architecture; indirect reference project designs; the concept; the analysis of the environment, legal and regulatory constraints; and the adopted concept. Finishing this paper, we report the design of the draft level and some final remarks. For the conception of the displayed product, volumetric studies have been developed aiming to meet the needs of program and the resulting conditions of environmental analysis. The choice of building system, closures and coverage are under definition as well as the improvement of the formal composition.