Habitação de interesse social em madeira : conjunto habitacional no bairro Pedra 90 após 14 anos de uso

Abstract

From the year 1994 was developed by the municipality of the city of Cuiabá, the program “Morar/Conscientizar” (Living-Educate), which foresaw, among other projects, the construction of quality housing for a portion of the population typically excluded from traditional models of housing finance. One such project was the "Ecomoradia" covering items related to urban housing and sanitation and also the recovery of degraded areas, particularly the banks of rivers Cuiabá and Coxipó. In 1995, a flood of the River Cuiabá left hundreds of low-income families homeless, forcing the city government to create solutions to shelter these families. With technical assistance and project developed by the São Carlos School of Engineering, Sao Paulo, were carried out the project Ecomoradia, in which were used leftover scraps of wood of small dimensions (under 8 ft. long), which, insofar as they are rejected by the market, would be discarded and burned up. The amount of 367 timber homes with 32.00 square meters were built, made of processed form, in the neighborhood “Pedra 90”, during the years 1995 and 1996, with the participation of future residents in the assembly steps. The project was halted in late 1996 and since then, without technical guidance to perform maintenance and renovations, many of the houses were demolished and replaced by brick houses. Of the 244 homes that still preserve the original module in wood, 72 took part in this survey, which evaluated the performance of materials and components. Since the delivery of

houses, various studies and research with different objectives were made, including post- occupancy evaluations, focusing on housing quality criteria and changes added on by

residents, with a more complete evaluation made in 2000, Arakaki's dissertation, guided by Professor Dr. Akemi Ino, coordinator for all phases of design and execution of the houses, which served as a parameter for this study. The results presented here were compared with the performance evaluations made in the same housing, developed in the years 2000 and 2004, in order to make an analysis of its evolution during the 14 years since the delivery of houses, revealing that despite serious problems disseminated by most households in the sample, minimal care as a replacement of roofing and wall painting were essential for the best results obtained by the few houses that have good performance. Also discussed was the use of space and efficiency of the flexibility provided in the project, through a survey of reforms and enhancements made by residents in the houses, demonstrating the importance of flexible design.