TRANSFORMATION SCENARIOS OF THE 4TH DISTRICT: THE SOCIO-SPATIAL DYNAMICS BETWEEN HOUSING AND WORK IN THE DISTRICT: FLORESTA - PORTO ALEGRE (Atena Editora)

Abstract

This work focuses on the type-morphological study of District: Floresta, in the 4th District of Porto Alegre, territory linked to the industrialization and expansion of the urban fabric in the beginning of the 20th century. It seeks to investigate the socio-spatial dynamics between housing and work and identify the patterns of change in residential and industrial architecture over the years, allowing the establishment of an overview of the urban phenomena involved with the transformation of cities and their future urban scenarios, especially in this fragment of the capital. gaúcha currently permeated by great speculative interest. The research is justified by diagnosing a recurrent panorama in the production of contemporary cities in the Southern Cone: the conflict between the discourse of capital, cultural heritage and material memory. Therefore, this work aims to infer future scenarios and alternatives for urban intervention, through the temporal investigation of past typological states, to support urban planning in the present, confronting the vocational dynamics of the neighborhood with possible urban solutions.

Urban space is understood as a complex and adaptive system, where past, present and future do not completely disappear and are always constituted in a condensed state of the history of cities. Based on this premise, this study is divided into time series, evolutionary stages of the system that mark the beginning of urbanization, the period of growth and the period of major changes in the primary structure. The typological cut (residences and industrial warehouses) is justified by the urban evolution of the neighborhood, economically characterized by the provision of services and industrialization, housing for workers and ethnic-cultural diversity. The investigation of urban dynamics through time series is capable of describing and predicting the macro-spatial process of transformation, within pre-defined time intervals. In this way, it instrumentalizes urban interventions on historical bases as a tool capable of strengthening the housing-work vocation of the neighborhood, respecting social diversity and economically encouraging the location.