Railway workshops in São Paulo: a study about the spatial formation of Companhia Paulista railway workshop in Jundiaí (1892-1896)

Author(s)

Taina Maria Silva

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Artes. 2019-10-22.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Arquitetura. Artes. Comunicação e Design. Bauru
• Defense date: 2019-09-26
• Advisor: Eduardo Romero de Oliveira

Abstract

Railway workshops are the biggest responsible for the maintenance of railway activities. Their workspace is comparable to that of an industry, for its activities. In Sao Paulo’s state, Companhia Paulista workshops, in Jundiaí, played an important role in the Brazilian railway era, and its functional space was specially designed to meet a high demand for services and was modified over the years for the same purpose. This paper investigates the architecture of the Companhia Paulista railway workshop, in the city of Jundiaí, in order to understand its functional space and has as its specific objectives to gather/raise information about the main railway workshops of the state of São Paulo; identify companies and professionals involved with the construction project of Jundiaí workshops and how these participations occurred; investigate the relationship between architecture and technology in order to understand if the building was built in a appropriate way to the industrial activity of the time; if the building system of the Jundiaí workshop followed any treatise and differences and similarities between the Jundiaí workshop and others that are linked to our object of study. The methodological procedure is qualitative and exploratory and uses bibliographic and documentary research as data collection, in addition to visual analysis. In the end of the research, we can understand several factors mobilized in the execution of the project and construction that resulted in the building completed in 1896. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 17/10302-5 - Typology of railway workshops: a study about the space formation of the Companhia Paulista workshop in Jundiaí (1892-1896)
• Grantee: Taina Maria Silva
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master