Impacto da verticalização na qualidade do espaço residencial: um estudo no bairro de tambaú, na cidade de João pessoa - PB

Abstract

This research has as theme the impact of the verticalization in the quality of urban residential space considering that, such process might interfere in the quality of life of the population living on site, and that it is this space that develops the daily lives of residents of a city. The study aims to analyze this impact, using as a basis methodological a assessment tool capable of aggregating indicators and índices interrelated: the QER Index (Quality of Residential Space) under the aspects of quality of housing space (Adapted QEH), noting the implications of the process of uprighting for the study area in 2011. Is used as empirical object a spatial area of four blocks located in the neighborhood of Tambaú, in the the east of the city of João Pessoa, and this area of the city is characterized by the process of uprighting. Is used as theoric reference a set of key concepts: quality of life and residential, urban space, uprighting, density. Were analyzed issues that comprise the indicators of Index QEH adapted, as: state of conservation building, architectural type of buildings, proximity to waterfront, interference of vehicular traffic, quality of the landscape noticeable, degree of privacy and sun exposure. Through application of the methodology mentioned the research has shown that uprighting might affect the quality of urban residential space and consequently in the quality of life of the inhabitants of the place where this process is inserted, among other reasons, by increasing vehicle traffic and the demand for parking, interfere and change the local climate, and the presence of coverage vegetal.