Container: a concepção do modelo como alternativa para habitação de interesse social em São Luís/MA

Abstract

This paper aims to explain the emergence, contextualization, characteristics and applications of the container, analyzing their conditions and verifying the viability of its use in civil construction. It develops studies on the social housing in the country and points out the government programs that provide assistance to this type of housing and highlights the particularities of this housing model in order to detect how behave these public housing nowadays. Allied to this research, analyzes are made about the container adaptability in architectural setting, as well as methods and concepts linked to the need to develop living spaces, proving the possibility of applying the container to social housing projects in the city of São Luís.