“Apertamento": um estudo sobre dimensionamento e funcionalidade na produção imobiliária de habitações mínimas verticais em Natal (RN)

Abstract

This research aims to characterize the production of apartments with two bedrooms offered by the real estate market from the viewpoint of dimensioning and functionality of the housing spaces, from analysis of the architectural program, dimensioning and spaces distribution, which also considers metric, geometrical and topological criteria,. In this sense, our study object consists of housing plans’ from the five main builders’ companies of the city of Natal (RN) with areas between 45sqm and 60sqm and between 2005 and 2015, a period of high housing production in the city. For that, our analysis method proposes an adaptation of Alexander Klein’s methodological research, which selected criteria are: a) preliminary examination; b) reduction of projects to the same scale; c) organization of circulation and movement areas’; d) concentration of empty areas; e) relation between the plan’s elements. The results reveal that the standard of living offered by the real estate market has similar areas and topological patterns, although some rooms geometries and furniture layout may vary. In this sense, our contribution is to expand the discussion about housing quality in it relation with the built environment especially in the sense of dimensioning and house’s uses.