SALVADOR, C. P. V.; SALVADOR, Caroline Padilha Vilar.
Resumo:
This paper has as the main objective the development of an urban furniture functional
element, through a shelter project for bus passengers in Campina Grande city, Paraíba.
Due to the city´s geophysical complexity, it was bounded a central area study, which
choice was a wide avenue that crosses the city, an observation throughout the avenue
where those shelters are located was made, and also a questionnaire was answered by
the ones who use these places, to observe the environmental and functional
characteristics of the chosen places, understand the dynamic of the studied area, as well
as, the users necessities. It was also held an ergonomic analysis that tried to establish
adequate measures to turn the furniture into a more comfortable one to its users. This
paper´s objectives were to develop a kind of specific solution to the urban furniture, one
more adequate to the environmental and functional context of the city; to create a shelter
system that provides an environmental comfort necessary to protect its users, and that
also contains visual-graphic information about displacement and location, furthermore,
a system to colect solid waste, visual-graphic information panels inserted in the urban
object, they will establish a functional, rational and contextualized interaction between
the furniture to be developed and the public urban space. After the analysis a project
was chosen, it was followed a configuration principle, and a modular structure that
could be adequate to various situations and different spacial contexts, and that could
also be adequate to the view of the studied area. On the sequence, it was made some
studies for possible layouts. The structure details, material, covering and finishing
which would be used, were being defined along the experiment´s solutions. Finally, it
was decided that the structure´s material would be galvanized metalon, to the covering,
wood, metal plate, blind translucent polycarbonate, that should be fixed through
parabolts, screws and rivets. The conclusion is that the studied area needs improvement
on the shelters used by public transportation users, and that this Project, once deployed,
will answer on an adequate way the users necessities, and will contribute to better the
urban space that it is located.