Centro Cultural Quilombola: arquitetura participativa na Comunidade Caiana dos Crioulos.

Abstract

Formed mostly by escaped African capives, of diverse cultures and origins, the quilombos became a symbol of black resistance and batle against the oppressions and abuses of the slave regime. Due to it’s historical and cultural importance, since the Federal Constitution of 1988, the quilombola’s documents, sites, and historical reminiscences have become Brazilian cultural heritage. Therefore, this research has as its theme the qualiicaion of the built environment of quilombos, based on the case studs of the quilombola community Caiana dos Crioulos. Its objecive is to develop an architectural drat project of a cultural center for the quilombola community Caiana dos Crioulos. More speciically, it aims to: (1) adapt the program needs to the sociocultural and collecive demands of the community (funcion); (2) propose an architectural soluion integrated to the idenity of the local built environment, whether natural or built (form) and (3) explore construcive soluions suited to the local socioeconomic condiions and the community’s construcive pracices (technical). For this, the development of the architectural project is supported by a Post-Occupancy evaluaion (POE) of the exising built environment, in addiion to a historical study of the site and the study of related projects. As a result, it is veriied that the paricipaion of the community in the design process was essenial for the creaion of an architectural proposal suited to the context in which it is inserted, being able to meet the wishes and needs of the community.