ASA: Social Action Architecture

Abstract

The Group entitled “Arquitetura de Ação Social” (ASA), created in the Graphic Expression Department of the Architecture and Urbanism Course of the Federal University of Santa Maria, has as its general objective to contribute technical work through specific extensions to a particular community. not being able to hire the services of a professional Architect and Urbanist can be attended free of charge by the staff of guiding teachers, scholarship students and volunteers of this institution. Thus, one of the challenges of Grupo ASA is, through our creativity, to achieve excellence in the proposed solutions, taking into consideration the lower total cost to be spent on the site, depriving the idea that quality would be connected at high construction costs. And the acronym, ASA, meets this premise, that is, we seek through the abstraction of the word "wing", which refers us to bird flights, freedom of creation, to raise imaginative flights with the intention of seeking quality solutions in the most different areas of architecture, urbanism and landscaping. And another challenge, being the main mission of ASA, which is beyond contributing to services rendered to needy communities, is with the formation of the student of architecture. That is, to contribute to this student through a personal contact with the communities to be contemplated by our project, caused by various types of surveys at the intervention sites, interviews to be conducted and proposition meetings with the communities, providing Thus, not only cognitive development, but also the sensitivity of this professional future and the fundamental role of citizen that it will play in the face of issues that need improvement in our country. By uniting teaching, research and extension activities, the academic benefits from his / her technical-scientific improvement, develops his critical-reflexive, intuitive and supportive spirit, impelling the rethink and encouragement, by inserting himself as a professional in the labor market. to be interested in contributing to the construction of a fairer, more egalitarian and better society, without thinking only about the material gains that the profession may return to it.