Terminal-Mercado: proposta de requalificação para o Terminal Rodoviário Cristiano Lauritzen em Campina Grande, Paraíba.

Abstract

Given its importance as a key component of the short distance roadoriented transport system in the Agreste region, and its significant participation in the definition of local trade, this study proposes a work of research on the architecture of bus stations, as well as an analysis of architectural projects that include a terminal’s or street market’s set of needs and an understanding of the relationship between building and new current dynamics in order to prepare a draftlevel architectural requalification of the Cristiano Lauritzen Bus Terminal. In order to do so, it is established the existence of a gap between the physical infrastructure of the building towards the new needs of its users, as well as the belief that diversity and simultaneity of events inside and outside of this space guarantee its timelessness and significance to the everyday life of their consumers. Therefore, the proposal takes on the expansion of space permeability, maintenance and enhancement of mixed uses, the appreciation of their qualities and readaptation of problematic aspects as key historical intervention principles. Thus, understanding this controversial universe that had become the old bus station through an architectural design that is based on the improvement of the conditions of the place in response to the new space demands.