PROPOSTA DE REABILITAÇÃO ARQUITETÔNICA DO MERCADO DE PARAGUAÇU COMO INSTRUMENTO DE REQUALIFICAÇÃO URBANA PARA ÁREA CENTRAL DA CIDADE

Abstract

This course completion work consists of the development of an architectural rehabilitation project in the Paraguaçu-MG market, and in the requalification of the area around it. It is based on studies about how the public market is, in most cases, linked to the good functioning of the urban space. Attention to this fact, the research aims to raise reflections on the changes occurred in the society regarding the way to consume; and how shopping centers have impacted cities in recent decades. The research aims to identify the economic, social and cultural factors that are related to urban interventions in urban centers and what the consequences for the city and its population. Due to the lack of places in the city center dedicated to cultural, leisure and entertainment aspects, the requalification of the urban space can serve as an integrating equipment among the people, of valuing the traditions and especially, a place of new uses, with different schedules for the democratic enjoyment of space. It is understood that faced with the diversity of interests, one must be guided by the care and critical sense, so as not to err in priorities that benefit only certain interests, such as the economic, leaving aside the cultural and social issue of the use of spatiality by the inhabitants of the city. The final proposal is an urban space that promotes urban and socio-cultural relations of the city through the movement of commerce, culture and local traditions.