ARRAIAL: estudo preliminar para uma casa de cultura junina.

Abstract

The feast of Saint John of Campina Grande in the state of Paraíba is a cultural manifestation that has existed for more than forty years. This work is willing to contribute, through architecture, to the rescue of the memory of the Biggest Saint John of the World from the proposition of physical space that can guarantee it history's preservation and importance to collective memory of the city to the posterity. In order to do that, it was necessary the return to the beginnings of the feast and study it origins and transformations it has gone through to the present day to understand it history, dynamic and relevance to the city. From the contextualization of this problematic, Lawson method (2011) has been utilized to base the process of project conception. From the comprehension of the problems, solutions construction and analysis of their efficiency, this methodology promotes the negotiation between restrictions generators and project decisions based on it process. From the definition of this methodologic percuss, correlated has been chosen and utilized as reference to cultural spaces that pretend to promote not just the register and the diffusion of distinct cultural manifestations of the country, but also provide their experience: ”Paço do Frevo” in the city of Recife – PE and the “Casa do Carnaval” in Salvador- BA. Due to the substantial lack of studies that could serve as basis for this proposal, these projects has been analyzed through Mahfuz methodology (2004) and, from that, project decisions were plotted, witch served as guide to the present project. With that, the present work has the intention of incentive the valorization of this popular manifestation proposing an equipment directed to junine culture through the Preliminary Study of a Junine Culture House (Arraial) to safeguard and make this culture present during all year.