ARQUITETURA E ERGONOMIA:

A ATIVIDADE COMO EIXO CONDUTOR DE PROJETO

Abstract

The architectural designs, especially the industrial buildings, have adopted, as a usual parameter of design, fixed criteria of square footage according to furniture or number of occupants per room. Projects destined to the industrial use also admit, as a guiding thread for its spatial configuration, the flow of the production elaborated from the tasks, thus neglecting the variability of the productive process and its evolution. This practice makes the workplace a dictum to which employees must adapt, impacting productivity and quality of production of goods and services, which in turn, generate financial losses to the institution. One of the problems found in the conception of architectural design is the difficulty of integrating, in practice, the functional quality expected in an Architectural Programming, to the project. In fact, it is considered as a priority, what is prescribed, that is, the task, disregarding the activity and the issues arising from it. This research is proposing an articulation of the concepts of Ergonomics to the practice of Architecture designs, aiming at a new approach when assuming the activity as the organizing element of the components of the space. For that was integrated as a research auxiliary tool the Ergonomic Analysis of Work in the process of elaborating the Architectural Programming. Then, the activities, inherent in the tasks of a Brazilian food industry, were systematically analyzed. The results showed that the lack of analysis of the activities generated a disorganized flow in the production and a layout that hinders the flexibility of the spaces.