ESPAÇO CRIAR: Centro Cultural

Abstract

This study presents a research project and architectural proposal at the planning level for the implementation of a cultural center in the city of Varginha, Minas Gerais. The development of this project in order to meet local demand, seeking to foster interest and appropriation of the space and to provide greater visibility to the artists of the region were determining factors that guided this study. With the population growth of the city and the limitations found in existing public equipment, it is necessary to plan new, more durable solutions that promote quality of life without confronting the culture and values of the society that is there. The project, therefore, would serve as a support to fulfill this objective, with research based on several theories such as Luís Milanesi and on architecture with Edson Mahfuz, Le Corbusier, Lucio Costa and Oswaldo Bratke, and themes related to culture. To meet the particularities of the project, the diagnosis of the environment instructed to define the program, in addition to the concept and party. In this way, it was defined through constructive systems, application of strategies of comfort and technology, seeking to reach, through the architectural object, the relevant form based on the theories of architecture discussed.