Áreas verdes na Universidade Federal de Goiás: o Bosque Auguste Saint-Hilaire e proposta de requalificação urbana

Abstract

The implementation of Brazilian university towns over the years followed the process of expanding cities. Large portions of lands, distant of the consolidated urban areas, close to areas of native vegetation, were designed to such equipment. The Campus Samambaia of the Federal University of Goias fits this scenario, which, over almost forty years, transformed the urban and natural landscape, with negative impacts on the flora, fauna and the university community, related to inappropriate uses and degradation process in Auguste Saint-Hilaire Wood, conservation unit on campus. The theme of this article refers to the rehabilitation projects of the urban spaces and environmental preservation to the Auguste Saint-Hilaire Wood: the proposal is to understand the factors that led to the current situation, establishing architectural arguments as solutions and present intervention proposal in the area. The methodology establishes participatory parameters added to reflections on case studies.