Modos de apropriação de espaços habitacionais: relatos de vivências na habitação social

Abstract

The present master dissertation intends to investigate the modes of housing appropriation in the so-called social neighborhoods. This study has as a rehearsal stage enterprises built under the Programa Especial de Realojamento (PER, Special Relocation Program), in Vila Nova de Gaia. Therefore, the primary goal of this work is to introduce the sociological component in the approach of the housing space, seeking to understand, starting from the socio-cultural-economic outline of different (groups of) individuals, how and if these factors influence the way they experience and evaluate the housing and subjacent outdoor spaces. The fundamental basis of this research project is the field work carried out with dwellers, throught/with which it's seeked to understand how the space, once typified and impersonal (characteristic of a request whose future inhabitant is anonymous), through the modes of appropriation inherent to each individual / household, becomes home. Supporting this investigation is a theoretical review that aims to highlight the different understandings and dimensions of concepts such as housing and home.