Utilizando metodologias empathic design e design universal em projeto arquitetônico para habitação popular: uma experiência no Tocantins

Abstract

This work focuses on architectural projects for popular housing, since its main approach focuses on the Empathic Design and Universal Design methodologies applied to the elaboration of these projects. As well, to understand two fundamentals of these methodologies, as well as to define two basic requirements for the elaboration and evaluation of this type of project, for some aspects that will allow the achievement of the objective of the study, which consisted in the presentation of an architectural project model of popular housing , adapted to these methodologies, developed in the State of Tocantins. Theoretically, the work sought to subsidy our budgets for housing of social interest, the relevant aspects of popular housing in Brazil and the criteria for assessing these housing. It has empirically sought to provide subsidies and alternatives to improve and eliminate the flexibility deficits of two popular housing projects, as well as adding to this type of housing the requirements in an economic and more sustainable way to make the processes viable and contribute to different studies in this area. One of the most significant conclusions of the study refers to the fact that popular houses must be conceived and built in accordance with the reality lived by their residents, involving and integrating factors related to humanization and social relations. The focus of the work has been the elaboration methodology, around which it is necessary to provide representative images that illustrate and demonstrate that humanization and empathy are not purely abstract concepts, simple and operationalized solutions that guarantee individuals and their family groups satisfy desires and minimum needs related to accessibility, mobility, adaptability and coexistence.