Habitaçao social no meio acadêmico: Retomando a temática

Abstract

This study deals with the reality of the housing production within the State of Rio Grande do Sul as the basis and the context for the development of academic papers. Afterwards, it presents the methodological directives used in the pedagogical and investigational processes as well as the preliminary results of this approach in the architecture, urbanism and engineering courses in Passo Fundo. The first academic developed projects seek to approximate the student to the reality and the local context by means of the diagnosis of the slums and suburbs to be resettled, knowledge of the further users of the public and private programs, comparatives between the existing urban infra-structure and the essential in the anticipated areas for the implantation of housing centers, among other preparatory activities for the development of architectonic and urban projects. Next, the teaching subjects which ought to be incorporated in the course are the use and the development of alternative constructive technologies as well as the viability of the norms and the legislation suitable to this approach. It can be concluded that this is a manner to make the student and the courses leave their studios and interact with their reality and difficulties of the theme, and, at the same time, become capable to develop the professional practice in the existing working field, having its economical potential aggregated to the social outcomes.