Espaço Multicultural Matarazzo: Anteprojeto de Centro de Apoio ao Imigrante na Cidade de João Pessoa - PB.

Abstract

The migration has been a constant growth process in human history, being the current situation considered by the United Nations (UN) as the most intense humanitarian crisis of the century. This research approach the subject of immigrants and refugees, which represent the biggest occurrences of the migratory flow that arrives in Brazil. This paper aims to elaborate the draft of an immigrant reception center in the city of João Pessoa - PB, addressing to attend the demand for shelter, education and health, which are needed for their integration in society. Therefore, pre project studies were developed to define the public and to choose the terrain in which will implanted the center. Thus, a project was elaborated for 300 immigrants in João Pessoa - PB, in the location of the old Fábrica Matarazzo, an immobile inserted in a restricted protected area by the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico do Estado da Paraíba (IPHAEP), in order to revitalize the region of urban void. The intervention, of 16.176,60 m2, has the concepts to welcome, to shelter and integrate, through the promotion of sheltering and educacional, food, psychologic, legal, social and medical multidisciplinary assistance, exploring the cultural pluralism. In addition, possibilities of future ampliation were considerated, because of the crescent dynamic of immigrants in town, as well as the insertion of equipments from other activities, like creative economy, popular mall and areas for tourists to visit.