Waste recycling sheds: a spatial architectural approach

Abstract

This article brings to surface the issue of trash, of the garbage collectors and recyclers in the city, the bad architectural conditions that these workers are subjected in their daily work in the Waste Recycling Sheds. It proposes to approach the trash from the themes of territoriality, order-disorder, center-suburb. It introduces the architectural universe of the Waste Recycling Sheds with a brief overview of recycling in Porto Alegre. Explains the spatial zoning of the Waste Recycling Sheds, and illustrates brief analyzes of three facilities: Association Profetas da Ecologia, Association of the Vila dos Papeleiros and the Association of the Hospital São Pedro, from the typological perspective and its functioning.