BUILDING RENEWAL ON SOCIAL HOUSING – CASE STUDY ON THE RUBEM BERTA SETTLEMENT, PORTO ALEGRE, BRASIL

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This study proposes a method and presents proposals to re-qualify a social housing complex, with diversification and expansion of units. The construction of large social housing condominiums can be criticized from several points of view. These projects has limited financial resources and there is a gap among the project and user’ requirements, generating a low quality product, which have an accelerated degradation and generate more maintenance’ waste in life cycle. Building renewal is a form of recycling and has influence in social, economic and environmental issues. The aim of this paper is to propose a design methodology for the renovation, which be sustainable and oriented on value creation. It consider environmental and economic feasibility based on embodied energy in materials and hedonic price models, respectively. We conducted design simulation, focusing on a typical housing complex, located in the Rubem Berta settlement, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and verify a potential for value adding. This work contributes to the discussion of alternatives to social housing deficit in Brazil.