The lack of schools in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, to meet the number of students; social exclusion; economic; in 2003, at the World Education Forum in Porto Alegre, where the city of São Paulo was present to present several projects of the Municipal Education Department. The main project presented was the Unified Educational Center - CEU and began to be implemented in the management of the Party of Workers (PT) of the Mayor Marta Suplicy, having as Secretary of Education Paulo Freire. The CEUs are configured in unified educational spaces integrated with sports, culture and education. Being of great importance to students and community, that until then were excluded. The relevance of the research called CEU Butantã - Professor Elizabeth Gaspar Tunala: how architecture can favor the appropriation of educational spaces is to be present in the area of Education, Art, History of Culture and is expressed in the investigation of a certain phenomenon that is articulated in all interdisciplinary areas. CEU is our research universe; being based on authors such as Freire, Benjamin, Corsaro, Santos, Teixeira, Fitchner, Delijaicov and others, that emphasize the importance of relations, practice freedom, autonomy, care to give voice and instead to children, making them the protagonists of their learning The research seeks to analyze how the child appropriates the educational social spaces and transforms it; at the same time as it is transformed by it. It enables social education in spaces of pedagogical experimentation, where the echoing of voices resonates with the objectives that guide CEU, such as the integral development of children and young people; community development pole; innovation and educational experiences. The appropriation of the educational educational spaces by the children of 5 years old, who attend the Municipal School of Early Childhood Education was our object of study. We use the ethnographic, documentary and field methodology; with the intention of understanding if these children appropriated these spaces and if so in what ways. The research instruments were: semistructured interviews, documentary analysis, open questionnaires, children's observation; approved by the ethics committee with due instruments.
