HOUSES WITHOUT PERSONS FOR PERSONS WITHOUT HOUSE: REHABILITATION OF HISTORICAL AREAS THROUGH THE HOUSING USE: UTOPIA?
Housing; Historical Areas; Rehabilitation; habitability; Varadouro.
The act of inhabit is related to the belonging consciousness that the individual develops in relation to the local where he lives; in this case the time is the main factor on this process. Groups that occupying the space for a long time, tend to face it as their, applying your culture, way of living and building. When we refer about housing projects in historical areas, mainly those that are degraded, we can preview a set of uses that could be inserted, maintained and restored in these spaces, and among all of them the most controversial is the housing use. It’s known that the ancient areas has a set of buildings dated from different eras and not always adaptable to society current needs, which means that most of the projects propose cultural equipment’s directed to tourism, or the implementation of housing use and the services and commerce as support. Thus, the adaptation of these buildings directed for housing proposes helps to solve two recurrent urban problems: the insertion of suitable uses to the buildings and the decreasing to housing deficit. However, for whom are these homes intended? Because other recurrent question in Brazil has been the removal of housing in these areas, when the occupation is set up in low-income areas, regardless of the occupation time, and often moving them to far away from the beginning areas, seeking to protect the economic value. Then, this study seeks to understand the paper of society in the recuperation actions in historical areas, and for what kind of inhabitant does it turn, discussing the limits and political potentialities for cultural preservation. To this research implementation was necessary discuss and question the relation between the urban housing and rehabilitation, from the knowledge of the positions adopted in Brazil, aiming to understand the actions carried out by public housing policies, and and how this issue is approached in relation to historical areas, and to the resident population especially when it comes to the low-income population. To the better understanding were analyzed the implemented projects in Recife/PE, Salvador/BA and Olinda/PE, and the study of the actual situation in Varadouro neighborhood, in João Pessoa/PB where the rehabilitation project was not wet was implemented. In addition to improving urban infrastructure, it’s necessary to guarantee habitability conditions to ancient areas, respecting the built identities, and thinking about projects that be able beyond economic exploitation, whether by tourism or gentrifying measures, only in this case is possible assume sustainability to these areas.