Reestruturação Urbana-Arquitetônica do Centro de Messejana: teoria e prática do urbanismo social. Novo mercado público de Messejana: a matemática aplicada às proporções do ambiente construído

Abstract

The Messejana district is a city's regionn that has its history concurrent with Fortaleza's, as thein occupation were given at the same period. At the beginning of 1940's, the traditional Messejana's fair had its first traders and from the year 200, there was a huge economic, political anda social growing in the region that was developed in such a way that became almost self sufficient. Currently the district, despire its cultural and historical wealth and even the capital circulation, suffers with problemas relating to privatization of public space and cuttler of urban space that creates a strong conflict between the various actors that happers there. THe work consists on an undergraduate thesis of the Architecture and Urbanism course of the Universidade Federal do Ceará and aims to make a urban analyze of the region, pointing out problems and finding a way that this theoretical study could be transformed into a practical design that may improve the area's organization and life quality. It consists in two stages: an urbanistic and architectural analysis of the urban environment and other a detailed architectural design.