ARCHITECTURE OF TRANSIT PLACES
LEARNING FROM INFORMAL APPROPRIATIONS OF TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES
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https://doi.org/10.35572/arql.v3i12.6627Keywords:
appropriation, informal, infrastructure, transportationAbstract
This text addresses issues related to the sectoral and strictly utilitarian logic of transportation infrastructure projects, which are conceived to serve only the purpose and demand of traffic, resulting in low-quality spaces for the daily experience of most of the urban population. The research started from the hypothesis that, rather than being characterized as disorder, the informal appropriations of the existing infrastructures can serve as a lens for a programmatically expanded and more urbanistically integrated definition of those same infrastructures. To this end, the research was based on case studies conducted in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. The analyses of the observed situations revealed a series of spatial concepts that show high potential for innovation in the design and transformation of transit spaces into meaningful places within the city.
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Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
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