Uma discussão sobre os modos de observação para intervenção no espaço urbano: o caso do Pau Miúdo, Salvador

Abstract

The article takes up an account of the transformation of the urban space in Salvador, based on the records of the Brongo survey of Pau Miudo, coordinated by the architect Sylvio Sawaya, in the 1980s, reviewed at a workshop held in V Enanparq - Salvador, 2018. It is interesting to reflect on ways of observing and understanding the spaces of daily life and the dynamics that animate them, to incorporate them in the act of projecting. The survey of the architect and his team, initially uses orthodox procedures, however, develops, throughout the process, alternative methods to precise and synthesize the understanding of reality. The conversations with the residents at that time suggested a questioning of the urbanizing actions of that time and, to a certain extent, the traditional methods of action and representation. The article is organized in three parts: a contextualization of the process in the 1980s; an analysis of the participatory dimension in the planning and design of urban intervention in popular territories; a reflection on living as a form of political resistance. The results converge to the legitimacy of an intervention process that exercises the observation of the everyday life and incorporates the listening of the inhabitants in the formulation and the concretization of the proposals of urban design. This is an attempt to review the procedures and practices of design that still greatly privilege the abstract techniques of spatialization, relegating to the secondary plane the apprehension of the dimension of daily life.