O etnoconhecimento e a arquitetura de Severiano Porto

Abstract

The research entitled “The ethno-knowledge and architecture of Porto Severiano” seeks to provide bibliographic, historical and design application subsidies used by the Amazonida and the architects in their conceptions of projecting in the Amazon region. Its object of study is the Amazônida’s level of knowledge with regards to the materials and techniques used by it when it comes to the art of building within the diversity of the Amazon, putting the architect’s point of view on top of people’s knowledge which comprises primary techniques when building their own home, where the Indian gave his contribution part. Thus, has Severiano Porto realized that the Amazonida had a relevant comprehension of the Amazon’s diversity and a better adaptation to the region's own characteristics, the severity of the climate, the water dynamics and the interface with the environment? Has this Amazonian knowledge influenced the architectural propositions in the region? To answer those questions, the goal of the research was to contextualize the Ethno-knowledge and the architecture of Severiano Porto on the development of projects and drawings on and for Amazon, suitable for its tropical climate - hot and humid - and the high temperatures. As for methodology, a qualitative approach was used based fundamentally on two inseparable actions, the methods: historical and observational, methods and techniques that shall give subsidies for a contextualized analysis of the knowledge of the local people and the modern architectural techniques used by the known “forest architect” or “Amazonian architect” in his works around the region. As for the results, we identified a way of conceiving and constructing that seeks to interact with the environment. The architect adapts to the region's economic and cultural conditions through available materials as academic learners alongside with the labor and local knowledge. The Amazonida’s wisdom and its relation with the specificities of the Amazon were actually the knowledge given by previous generations, a non-scientific constructing knowledge that does fit to the bio-climatic strategies, the humid and hot weather, a heritage of materials and strategies of constructions that tells a lot about what it means to live in Amazon its tradition and mores.