Barraca: Proposta para uma intervenção

Abstract

The term "barraca" in the imagination creates the image of a poor construction, built with materials recovered from work, without infrastructure, with corrugated iron roofs of fiberglass or metal. In this case study the term "barraca" is used by the inhabitants of the island of Boavista, in Cape Verde to name a particular zone (Bairro de Chã de Salinas), with its own characteristics that fall within what could be considered an precarious urban settlement. All settlements, whether urban or rural, are human settlements as they satisfy a basic need: shelter. Formally or structurally with characteristics apparently similar due to their common trait of general insecurity, each has particular features inherent to social groups with particular ways of life and cultural aspects, and adopt the terminology of countries according to their social reality political, economic and cultural. In Cape Verde urban or rural migration between islands, forces the settlement. The insularity creates different dynamics between the capitals of each one . The recent promotion of Boavista has a touristic place has led to an increase of constructive activity, and thus creating employment, the island has became an atraction pole of population. The newcomer, with low economic status is without a choice, conditioned to live in poor conditions due to the housing deficit and the absence or ineffectiveness of housing programs. Right now, in the neighborhood of Cha das Salinas (Barraca) are identified, approximately 800 homes that house a population of 2,800 people living in a segregated space, usually not recognized by government and society, where conflicts are evident. Generated by the high concentration of population, consisting of different ethnic groups, the problems stemming from the confrontation of cultures, poor hygiene, lack of access to medical care worsens with the growth of this dense urban strucuture. The place of origin for this settlement became established at a distance of approximately 600 meters from the town of Sal Rei, for obvious reasons of secrecy. Today, the reason for its genesis it is also responsible for the discrimination of this place.