Habitação de interesse social: Fazenda Rio Grande, Paraná

Abstract

The term Social Housing has been widely discussed during the recent decades. The Government started to introduce social housing policies at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the urbanisation levels and the accelerated population growth being the main reasons for the high levels of housing shortage. Since then, many housing policies were introduced, however, none was able to deliver the desired result. Many cheap quick-fix solutions were developed, delivering low-quality architectural designs that made little contribution either to residents' wellbeing or lowering house shortage. In this context, the present research aims to review existing literature, in order to propose an architectural design which promotes environmental quality, flexibility, personhood of place and regional integration in Social Housing.