Análisis de la estructura en la escuela Paulista Brutalista: estudio de casos

Abstract

The learning of the structural aspect in architecture is often paradoxically dissociated from the discipline as it is approached only from the point of view of engineering, which does not consider the potential of the structural in the architectural work. Paulista Brutalism, being an architectural style, whose designs arise from the knowledge of technique as "first substance" along with history in the words of Paulo Mendes da Rocha (2011), requires an approach that converges the knowledge of these two professions. Mendes da Rocha (2011) highlights the importance of the Paulista Brutalism as a "peculiar mode of knowledge", which stands out for its efficiency, and which due to its "reflective character", requires other disciplines, as is the case of engineering, which is the subject of this paper. The Paulista Brutalism is expressed in forms that show an experimentation of the structural typologies, so it is considered as necessary to approach the works of Vilanova Artigas and Mendes da Rocha from an architecturalstructural perspective for an integral analysis. This degree work emphasizes, through case studies, the structure to generate form, which is understood from a historical, architectural, structural system and structural performance approach. With regard to this last analysis, the finite element method is used to discuss the efficiency of the shapes, which makes it possible to account for the potential of this tool in architectural design.