Minimum housing in Natal (RN): dimensioning and functionality analysis of the real estate market production
minimum housing, dimensioning, functionality, ergonomics.
This research aims to characterize the production of vertical’s minimum housing produced by the real estate market from the viewpoint of dimensional and functional quality of the housing spaces, from analysis of architectural program, dimensioning and spaces distribution, which also consider the users’ ergonomic needs and housing functions. In this sense, our object consists of the analysis of housing´s plans from the five main builders’ companies of the city of Natal (RN) with areas between 45sqm and 60sqm and between 2005 and 2015, a period of high housing production in the city. For that, our analysis method proposes an adaptation of Alexander Klein’s methodological research, which criteria are: a) preliminary examination; b) organization of circulation and movement areas’; c) concentration of empty areas; d) geometric analogies and relation between the plan’s elements; e) reduction of projects to the same scale. The results reveals in one hand that the standard of living offered by the real estate market has similar areas and topological patterns, and on the other hand also shows that some geometries and furniture layout can be more affordable to rooms’ functionality. Therefore, our contribution is to expand the discussion about housing quality in it relation with the built environment especially in the sense of dimensional e functional quality.