Espaços para Educar: anteprojeto arquitetônico institucional destinado ao ensino fundamental da rede pública municipal de São Luís do Maranhão

Abstract

Architecture is an important element within the knowledge construction process, being responsible for producing user-oriented environments and the functions that will be performed in the space. Through the development of a preliminary project aimed at the public school institution of elementary level for the city of São Luís, the present work proposes that a good architecture is capable of improving educational indicators and guaranteeing the fulfillment of the basic right - education for all - in its integrity. When approaching the school institutional architectural production, the importance of a focused look at the user and the activities that will be performed in the space was seen, noting that a good part of the public Brazilian school architecture is built based on economic precepts, ignoring the subject that will live there, which implies alarming data regarding its infrastructure. For the production of this work, a qualitative approach was used from the analysis of data on education and infrastructure, and a study was also carried out on the current and old ways of school architectural production; having as an explanatory objective, the analysis of the data was of paramount importance, indicating that the quality of the infrastructure is directly linked to the improvement of education. Having an applied nature and being supported by authors such as Dóris Kowaltowski and Juhani Palasmaa who talk about the production of space and about characteristics that good school architectures must have, the work was directed to the production of an architectural draft that sought to apply school design guidelines for the public of the public network, demonstrating that it is possible to produce personalized schools with unique characteristics that add to the educational practice. Observing the information that was obtained through a survey of the project insertion region and the socio-economic characteristics of the region, the work was directed exclusively to the users of the building and to the residents of the surroundings. In view of the journey carried out, it was concluded that it is possible to develop good architectural projects that are aligned with the pedagogical, cultural and human axes. Understanding that architecture is one of the pillars of education, and a good design is essential for the development of knowledge and for the development process, with a view to humanization.