Arquitetura pública: assistência arquitetônica gratuita à população de baixa renda de São Luís

Abstract

The present study aims to examine the housing sector to the brazilian today, making the lifting of the parameters used for obtaining, juridical and cultural aspects, for the preparation of a proposal for a public architecture to be deployed in São Luís. It has been shown that since the beginning of the problem with the lack of housing up to today has as main features the massacre of the poor population, the lack of interest of the government and ineffective programs, despite national and international juridical instruments to protect decent housing as a fundamental right. In an attempt to make that the housing programs fuction with carefulness, propose free technical assistance to persons of low rent, which was based on a work of the School of Architecture UFMG of Cataguase, which is also called the Public Architecture. The main benefits brought by the Public Architecture is social inclusion and social and environmental responsibility.