The floating community of Lago Catalão - Iranduba AM: : an urban fabric over the waters

• Autor(a) principal: Pinheiro, Luana
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Cardoso, Ana Cláudia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.47235/rmu.v7i2.114
• topic: morfologia; assentamento flutuante; comunidade ribeirinha; urbanização exetensiva; Amazônia brasileira; morphology; floating settlement; riverine community; extensive urbanization; Brazilian Amazon

This study investigates the space - self-built and self-managed on the waters - of the communityof Lago Catalão (Iranduba AM), highlighting its resilience and ability to adapt over time to riverregimes, subjected to floods and intense droughts under the context of climate change. Characterizationof site and way of life combined with morphological analyses, indicate that there is a spontaneousconsciousness in the community, through which floating typologies and spatial arrangements on thewaters are (re)produced, thanks to the possibility of collective appropriation of floodplains. There is asingular spatial dynamics in the floating settlement which restructures itself seasonally over water,respecting a gradient of the public-private transition and conditions of access to the river and themainland, and demands the proposition of new categories of morphological analysis for the propercharacterization of the spatial reconfiguration process of floating buildings: agglutination, expansion,exchange and transference. Such processes are adaptive responses to hydrological cycles, neighborhoodrelationships within the family group, and the need for rotation of common use floating platforms. Allthese movements are possible thanks to the fluidity of the water, which unlike the earth, does not attachbuildings to the ground or allows the fixation of lots.