Projeto de abrigo para usuários de transporte coletivo para a área central da cidade de Campina Grande - PB.

Abstract

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.