Abrigo Liga das Patinhas: redesign do espaço de interação e convívio entre homem e animal

Abstract

According to the Forum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal (FNPDA) [National Forum of Animal Protection and Defense], all animals need a space to walk, run, lay down and eat, besides having the right to the Five Freedoms of Animal Well-being. However, most of the time, the shelters and institutions are not designed aiming at this end, generally what we found are protector’s residences or sheds that with time and budget availability goes through improvements and renovations. Although, the demand and spends are always higher than these places can sustain and, because of that, configure of precarious and over populated installations, making it difficult for the well-being and rehabilitation of the animals. With that said, a shelters project is a crucial factor to the good recovery and welfare of the animals and needs to be planned in a way to attend to the rights and needs of everybody involved, in a more humanized way, granting security, health and quality life for everyone. Thus, this paper has the goal to propose a redesign to the Animal Protection Association Liga das Patinhas, promoting practice between social design and architecture, to design functional spaces compatible with the shelter’s reality, for the development of humanized environments with a focus on healthcare, animal welfare and multispecies interaction in a co-inhabited space, considering that the shelter is composed of family and temporary homes of more than 100 animals.