Victor Dubugras and the Mairinque Railroad Station: the trajectory of a design

Author(s)

Amanda Bianco Mitre

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD)
• Defense date: 2018-02-08

Examining board members

Telma de Barros Correia; Monica Junqueira de Camargo; Nilson Ghirardello; Givaldo Luiz Medeiros

• Advisor: Telma de Barros Correia

Abstract

During the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the intense industrialization process lead to a series of modifications in the organization of the space through technical and aesthetic innovations associated with the emerging industrial reality. As consequence, there were changes in ways of thinking about architecture, in a search for new concepts and practices that would be a better fit to the industrial city scenario. This panorama of transformations and formal and aesthetic experimentation was incorporated in architecture, among other things, through the Art Nouveau. The research studies of one of the main examples of these trends Brazil: The Mairinque Railroad Station, design by the francoargentine architect Victor Dubugras (1868-1933). Investigates the trajectory of the design architectural conception, organization of the internal spaces, the site planning and the detailing and the trajectory of the building interventions, conservation initiatives and conservation conditions. It shows that the records of the designs development reveal both the constancy of some procedures, as well as the manipulation and modification of solutions that define the acquisition of technical and plastic refinement. It verifies that despite the preservation of the general framework of construction, the effective legal protection by different patrimonial spheres and the prospects of restoration, important constraints of the architectural design and the relations of the building with its access and surroundings have been altered. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 15/02470-0 - Ornate and Functionalism: Victor Dubugras and the Mairinque Railway Station
• Grantee: Amanda Bianco Mitre
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master