Uma casa Mbya-Guarani: modo de viver

Abstract

This work is based on concerns about how to design a house, imposed on the Guarani people and carried out on indigenous lands in Paraná, via the State Social Interest Housing Plan, in a mass process. In order to alleviate this, through conversations and teachings gathered in a small ethnography among the Mbya, we propose an architectural project for a house in Tekoa Araça-i, in Piraquara/PR. To this end, we seek to understand the relationships between house, home, land, territory, and aspects of the Mbya-Guarani way of living, adapting the project to the specificities of these people and, thus, respecting their cosmology. There are, therefore, fundamental aspects that were observed in the spatial relationships of this ethnic group, understanding architecture as part of the process of artistic creation and as cultural heritage. With input from such studies and reference projects, the guidelines, parties and fundamental concepts for the development of the project were established.