Resumen de Pedro Paulo de Mello Saraiva: la constancia de la modernidad
The work of Pedro Paulo de Malo Saraiva presents some rules and solutions where projects results in a formal consistency through the structural order, especially in the design of high-rise buildings. Thus it seeks to know through the analysis of their projects as this aspect influences at how he identify the context and the emplacement of this buildings, in tension between architectural brief and form, and how he arranges the tensión between the structural support and the building enclosure. For both, it is necessary to characterize their academic and intellectual training and position your work in front of the geographical spread of modern architecture movement.
Adaptations agalnst climate and relief, and the logical deductions of use of system use reinforced concrete characteristics of modernity in Brazil, took place in the building of the Ministry of Education and Health, in all its technological complexity, especially for the innovative structural design proposed, its international impact has contributed to the development of modern architecture in Brazil and was a reference to Saraiva and his generation. In Sao Paulo the development of moder architecture has been slow and gradual, linked to the private sector with emphasis on housing projects and residential buildings, defined by training in polytechnics univesities, in a professional environment of broad collaboration and formation of associations made, where consolidation of modern architecture was subject for the professional practice of a group of professionals, especially, Rino Levi and Oswaldo Bratke.
Bratke's work was responsible for translating in building construction, the influence of the architecture produced by European masters on the west coast of the US, so present in the housing projects of Saraiva in their training period. These common efforts came in the later work of Saraiva by the expressive potential of technical rigor, the expressiveness of the structure, and above all, that modulation of the structure seems to be the rule of order that more clearly articulates all architectural brief. In the 50 and 60 participates in a lot of ompetitions in architecture, his work has won relief to explore the structure as a formal and constructive resource also to maintain the importance of structural rule in residential buildings and offices building, against a range of architectural briefs, in an abundant labor market provided by economic growth and urban expansion in Sao Paulo. Facing the large volume of works and projects, results constant structural rules of order designed with purpose to establish extensible orders to his other projects and their contemporaries, which they are identified by a structural typologies defined by Laminar Building, Pavilion building, Beam Transitional Portico Concrete, Building on 04 supports and Concrete Truss.
The thesis is structured around the analysis of four buildings represent a definite solution as Laminar Building, the structural rule established In that solution it Is able to establish formal rules that define the buildig emplacement. rules Internal divisions, allow the functional independence of space, displacement between the structural support and the building enclosure, well as the independence of the volume of the tower and the ground open floor or volume of the base building. This structural system is the thread on which the analysis is developed. In a first stage are presented buildings without the enclosure, individually, then place them in relation to others. In the second stage buildings will analisados in pairs, side by side, because of its similarities regarding the architectural brief.
