Modos de habitar no centro de Campina Grande: as configurações internas dos edifícios verticais residenciais nos últimos 20 anos.

Abstract

From the studies carried out about the housing market and, more specifically, the verticalization in the central area of Campina Grande/PB, in the period between 2000 and 2020, this work proposes to analyze apartment’s projects. Recognizing these urban processes and the social changes that have occurred in recent decades, it is questioned if these transformations caused changes in the internal spatial configuration of these apartments. Therefore, this research is based on the theory of the social logic of space, to understand the ways of living and how the internal spatial configuration of apartments in residential buildings has behaved over the past 20 years in the central area of Campina Grande, through functional, dimensional and configurational analyses. Using spatial syntax to understand how spatial relationships take place, we seek to find patterns or transformations among the analyzed floor plans. The results of the analysis show that despite many variations regarding the type floor plans, the projects tend to have a certain standardization in terms of spatial organization.