Arquitetura efêmera: estudo preliminar de um abrigo emergencial para desabrigados por desastres naturais

Abstract

The main goal of the current work is to elaborate an architecture proposal of emergency shelter focusing on the victims of natural disasters in Maranhão. Hence, it studies the natural phenomena, particularly floods, researching how it causes natural disasters, and the measures to prevent and respond to it, related with urbanism and architecture. The work identifies in the geophysical and climate characteristics, the need of a shelter under such conditions, through bibliographical and field researches. Furthermore, it presents the ephemeral architecture, focusing on emergency shelters, analyzing examples from Brazil and other countries, discussing their strengths and needs of improvement, developing guidelines to the design. The final result reflects all of these studies in a proposal that aims to help underprivileged populations affected by floods in the State of Maranhão.