Produção do espaço: uma leitura sobre as práticas e padrões: a caracterização espacial do Cohatrac IV

Abstract

The restlessness that motivated and guided the present work starts from the performance of the architect and urbanist and its role in the construction of spaces. How have they been thought? By whom? For whom? Thus, this work aims to understand the process of space production, according to Space Production Theory, proposed by the philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre, in addition to allying such theory with the Pattern Language proposed by the architect and mathematician Christopher Alexander. The association between the two theories will take place under a new approach to space, proposed by social scientist and geographer Doreen Massey. Seeking to ally theory with practice and in an attempt to illustrate all the ideas approached by the aforementioned thinkers, the work presents as a reference a reading of the neighborhood of Cohatrac, in São Luís, Maranhão. The choice of the neighborhood is justified by its particular dynamics in relation to the other city’s neighborhoods. Initially a purely housing complex, today Cohatrac stands out from the other neighborhoods for many peculiarities.