Avaliando a resiliência no ambiente construído: adequação climática e ambiental em habitações de interesse social no Residencial Sucesso Brasil (Uberlândia/MG)

Abstract

Social housing produced by the Minha Casa, Minha Vida (PMCMV) Program in Brazil generate important impacts on the natural environment that includes them. Among these impacts are the waste of construction materials, high expenses with electricity and the depredation of green areas. These impacts mainly derive from the low capacity of social housing offered to adapt to the evolution of family profiles and to resist the recent effects of climate change, demonstrating their minimal resilience. Resilience in the built environment is understood as its ability to resist, to adapt and/or to transform to cope with change. It is necessary that such capacities be foreseen and made feasible by the project of the built environment in question. Resilience is a quality that Brazilian social housing projects must possess, in order to optimize the use of resources available for its production and subsequent maintenance. This dissertation had as general purpose to analyze the resilience in the built environment of social housing focusing on two of its facilitating attributes: "climatic adequacy" and "environmental adequacy" . Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) methodology was developed to observe impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities, related to those attributes, in a case study about a PMCMV development named as Residencial Sucesso Brasil (located in the city of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais state, Brazil). The results support the obtaining of social housing more appropriate to the climate and the environment in which they are inserted, facilitating the manifestation of resilience. After all, the research developed aimed to align with the goals of international urban agendas, which place resilience as an “engine” in the fight against the vulnerability of cities.