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E1: Industrialization in Modern Brazilian Architecture, 1950

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Digital Modernism Heritage Lexicon

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The construction of the E-1 building occurred between 1954 and 1957 in a scenario marked by the growing Brazilian industrialization. Celebrated by national critics as an example of flexible architecture and prefabrication, the building plastically expressed the spirit of the new Engineering School that was established there. Aiming at preserving it as an architectural heritage, we deepened the knowledge about the historical construction process of the building. Later, the Historic Building Information Modeling (HBIM) was adopted for reconstruction. To accomplish this task, a narrative was developed, which started from the Campus constitution of the University of São Paulo (USP), in the city of São Carlos, and the Engineering School implementation. This narrative includes the definition of the pilot project for the area and the E-1 construction. It addresses several characters that we seek to identify and relate to the construction industrialization history in Brazil. The building history and the modeling of the construction phases allowed us to verify initial hypotheses regarding the project’s contribution in the construction industrialization context as well as the quality and integrity that the building preserves to this day. The floor plans flexibility, the tree structure, and the strategy for the building system shafts are aspects of technical competence, expressed in architectural, structural, and installation designs. It is the most significant building on the Campus. However, it remains not legally protected, as well as a large and varied collection of modern buildings spread across the Brazilian territory, whose cultural value is at ties unknown.

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Acknowledgements

To the São Carlos School of Engineering (EESC), USP, for access to the building and its design documentation and to the EESC Library for the photographic images provided. To Engineer Júlio César Franco Júnior for Fig. 11. To Ms. Débora Coelho and Marcos Pedrine for their assistance in finding relevant documents. To the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for supporting the research project “HBIM and Digital Documentation of Modern Architectural Heritage: Development of a Protocol from a Case Study in the E1 building” (Process 435740/2018-0); and for the Research Productivity Grant (Process 306998/2018-1).

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  1. Centro Universitário Central Paulista (UNICEP São Carlos), São Carlos, Brazil

    Ana Lúcia Cerávolo

  2. University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil

    Ana Regina Mizrahy Cuperschmid & Felipe Bruno Lima da Silva

  3. University of São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, Brazil

    Márcio Minto Fabricio

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  1. Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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  3. Architecture and Urbanism Institute, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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Cerávolo, A.L., Cuperschmid, A.R.M., da Silva, F.B.L., Fabricio, M.M. (2022). E1: Industrialization in Modern Brazilian Architecture, 1950. In: Bartolomei, C., Ippolito, A., Vizioli, S.H.T. (eds) Digital Modernism Heritage Lexicon. Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76239-1_55

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