Proposta de retrofit de edifício do antigo Paraiban em JP - PB

Abstract

The project is a proposal for retrofit through the change to mixed use (multifamily residential, com - mercial and services), together with an update of its technology and accessibility in order to enhance its ar - chitectural heritage and promote recycling measures and reactivating it in urban dynamics from its re-sig - nification. The intervention building is located on lot n° 1457 on Avenida Presidente Epitácio Pessoa in the city of João Pessoa - PB, where the former Paraiban used to function, now abandoned. With the goal of de - aling with reuse through the appropriation of potentia - lities as a privileged point within the urban fabric and exemplary of regional architecture. The intention is to reconfigure the building in favor of the quality of the in - tervention but keeping part of its original design, in ad - dition to proposing apartments based on a discussion about contemporary living, above all aiming at adapta - bility. In this way, the basement and ground floors were reserved for public uses, and the dwellings were ac - commodated in standard floors which, in turn, had the voids in the slabs reconfigured, apart from the addition of balconies in an independent metallic structure and mobile louvers for shading. It was proposed to the roof floor common leisure spaces for residents in addition to the technical area