ORHIO: observatório hídrico para ressignificação e restabelecimento do contrato social entre rios e ruas em Campo Grande/MS

Abstract

The relationship between rivers and streets, within the design and planning of urban spaces, has become troubled as one overlaps the existence of the other. In Brazil, the 1950s, a great encourager of the automobile as a symbol of progress and modernity, resulted in the opening of numerous roads so that vehicle traffic could be adapted, inspired by the hygienist principles and the renovations carried out in Europe, especially in Paris. The channeling of rivers was adopted as a solution to this and other natural elements that were considered a problem or obstacle for the territory in the process of densification. Semiotics is inserted here as a tool for analyzing the sign formed to the detriment of this entire historical process involving rivers and streets, in order to analyze human behavior in relation to these two urban elements and pointing where and how to reestablish the social contract between them. Generally, it pretends to design an architectural project with the intention to revive the relationship amidst the population, the city and its water, also, beyond that, searches to shatter with the idea that this kind of intervention needs only to be a way in achieving the mitigation of flooding and overflow.