Space Syntax in an idiorrhythmical conglomerate: the case of Jardim Piratininga, São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract

[EN] . This article aims to contribute to urban design alternatives in the Jardim Piratininga neighborhood and to offer subsidies for future Urban Intervention Projects (PIU).This area, located in the East Zone of the Municipality of São Paulo, was defined by the 2012 Strategic Master Plan as Special Zone of Social Interest - ZEIS. It is presumed that the studied area, considered as an emerging urban fabric stratum that lacks in a large part of basic urbanization infrastructures, holds in itself the potential for a future readaptation and complementation of its roadway. The methodology that will be used in this analytical approach of the urban form, known as Space Syntax, seeks to provide: support for decision making; tools to calibrate these decisions; evaluate proposed scenarios; as well as combining other methods and tools. This methodology enables to confirm something we probably already know - the need to complete ‘mesh design’ in contemporary cities urbanized areas that have a diverse constitution from that ones observed in more sedimented and stable fields (consolidated city). As a result of the research done for this article, there will be presented some possibilities of transformation of the neighborhood roadway according to diverse scenarios, but based on the dynamics of the place itself, and also with the surrounding urban fabric