O Espaço Apropriado: um estudo acerca do Conjunto Ismael Silva e Zé Keti na cidade do Rio Janeiro

Abstract

How to solve the problem of informal settlements in Brazil? One solution considered relatively simple by government agencies is the transfer of these communities to formal residences with access to basic infrastructure; since urbanization of slums, however effective it may be, tends to be less concentrated and therefore more difficult to implement. In addition to being a less profitable venture in public-private partnerships. Several studies show us that the cities of the future, different from what is in the imaginary, move in the opposite direction from the technological and modern model, and more towards the informal, disorganized and empirical. In this context, the present work seeks to understand the impacts of social housing policies in Brazil and to verify if they guarantee an effective improvement in the housing conditions of the lower income classes. At first, an overview of the various national housing policies adopted since 1930, when the State began to intervene effectively in the area. After this exhibition, is presented a more in-depth analysis of the Ismael Silva - Ze Keti Housing Complex, located in a central area in the city of Rio de Janeiro, built within the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program. In the midst of a program that constantly undergoes criticism related to standardization, urban aspects and constructive technology, the focus will be on social issues, identified through an investigation into the ways of inhabiting and appropriating the new residential space. Finally, we seek an understanding of the spaces considered informal, what kind of experiences they promote, and what are the housing projects that seem to incorporate such dynamics. The result of the research, although yet unsolve, allows verifying that the informality does not cease to exist after the transfer to formal spaces; it just takes on a new face. The emergence of these informalities in the projected living space brings it closer and in some cases even makes it to have the same condition of slums to which it has proposed to solve.