Diagnóstico do ambiente construído dos engenhos, no município de Areia-PB: base para o agroturismo.

Abstract

Due to the identified transformations on the agricultural activities, the careless and the progressive degradations of the rural constructions, all of this associated to a great agricultural tourism development expectative and the imminent need to adequate the constructions to the new tendencies of production and marketing, the present work had the objective to identity, characterize and analyze the existing rural constructions of sugar cane distilleries of the Areia County. The exigencies of the Agricultural Secretary and Sanitary Vigilance obligate the diagnostic of the actual situation of the "rapadura" and "cachaza" commodities without descharacterize its historic, architectonic and cultural patrimony. To proportionate a better visualization of the sugar cane rural constructions on the county, some examples of these constructions were shown with its constructive systems characteristics, materials and architectonic style. It was observed that most of the edifications had a primitive constructive system with an architectonic style predominantly colonial, builded in self-carried cement in mud tiles, higher roofs and covers with wooden structures and ceramic tiles. Considering the conducted adaptations it was observed that in fact decharacterization of the architectonic style occurred, indicating that the actions being implemented could interfere on the touristic potential of the region.