Residências estudantis universitárias: análise ergonômica de dormitórios

Abstract

Coronavirus's unexpected pandemic situation has changed habits, because urban life was replaced by day-to-day living in the residence, leading the population to confinement and living with improvised situations for the development of various tasks in the family environment. In addition to this context, the literature points out inadequacies of housing for low-income populations, usually involving issues, of environmental design reflected in the dimensioning and its reduction. With the pandemic, such issues migrate from social housing and settled in middle-class apartments, putting on opposite sides the arguments of researchers/experts, in the face of the power of the real estate market (which seeks maximum use of each square meter of the enterprises). Dealing with a different way of living, this artilce aims to analyze university residences, from the perspective of ergonomics applied to environments, having cut out the dormitories to study of the characteristics of their design (as dimensions, layout and usability. This paper lists positive and negative aspects of these spaces, at a time when the need to reduce physical contact between people is highlighted. The work approaches the problem in a qualitative way, adopting the multi-case study defined from an intentional sample, according to the research interest. In the end, there is restriction and inadequacy in most of the analyzes student dormitories.