Minha casa é tudo o que tenho: os sentidos da sociabilidade da vida cotidiana ribeirinha

Abstract

This research aims to understand the elements and conditions that make an architectural space to acquire a home status. From the architectural point of view, when creating a house one must think in the furniture and objects that will acclimate them, besides the materials to be used that will give support to the organization of the space. This perspective is based on the concept of arrangement and ambience. The structure of the arrangement shows the organizational aspect, because it is related to the disposition and combination of the objects in a way to obtain a functional compoundable to communicate social values. While the structure of the ambience comprise the way in which colors, materials, shapes and textures combine in the constructed site in order to make possible the arrangement intended. The final architectural project is seen as being an addition of this investigation – the structure of the arrangement in assemblage with the structure of ambience, always bearing in mind the social values of who will inhabit the house. And the acquisition of certain wealth and the way of how they are used will direct to different branches of architectural projects or reinforce others. The subjects of the research – inhabitants of the location Boa Esperança, in the Reserve of Sustainable Development Amanã, Amazonas (AM) – and the staying in their houses broadened my architectural perspective. It was possible to verify that the meaning of being at home is related with more intensity to the social relations established around the house. As the influence of human component continued being the core of value and the source of meaning for the architectonical space to be considered a house of living, this turned out to incorporate more the mark of the social relations among residents and not residents than the marks of arrangements and ambience. So it’s not only the objects that arouse the feeling of being at home, but something that proceeds. “My house is inside here” summarizes the feeling of belonging to the region, which is the element that allows an architectural space – the riverside house – to acquire the status of home. The “inside here” is the relation with the occupational background, with the kindred, with the productive activities, with the living in community and with the environmental dynamic.