HABITAÇÃO DE INTERESSE SOCIAL: A TRANSFORMAÇÃO DO ED. RIACHUELO / SP

Abstract

Society and community are seen under the anthropological gaze, in which they interact socially, that is, the society involves secondary relations, impersonality in the bonds, rationality in the visions, utilitarian actions. For the community relations are closer, involving feelings, solidarity, traditionalism, rigidity as to social control. Finally, the relations between society and communities, form a relationship that imbues and coexists. Among the various theories that debate about the right to the city, in what concerns in legal terms, the law stands out as what is justified in the perspective of the social function of property. To live the urban life would be to experience what city has to offer, that is, spaces of coexistence and of encounter between the different social groups and of classes. But what we observe is that there are in the cities socio-spatial segregation, whose central spaces are used by the rich minority, and the peripheral spaces for the poor. Faced with this scenario it is necessary to rethink, to rethink the role of the city and its inhabitants fairly. The purpose of this dissertation is to discuss the issue of housing of social interest in large metropolises. For the purpose of this study, Riachuelo Building, located in the center of the city of São Paulo, is a commercial building transformed into a social housing. A practical example of great value in the central region of the city of São Paulo, an enterprise that represents the occupation of abandoned buildings without exercising their social function of property. The building illustrates the importance of the process around the Houses of Social Interest, as well as the preservation of the city's historical heritage