Análise da arquitetura residencial do escritório NR Arquitetos: Residência IB, Passo Fundo – RS (1984)

Abstract

Broadly speaking, throughout the twentieth century, modern Brazilian architecture followed the ideals and models derived from European trends. Architects adapted the modernist precepts to the national reality, creating a genuinely Brazilian architecture, using new constructive processes turned to the industrial reality of the time, having good acceptance by the professionals of the moment, gaining international recognition. In a few decades, the new architecture was already present in many regions of Brazil, and the city of Passo Fundo, located in the northwest of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, was soon to arrive. Between the 1950s and 1960s, modern architecture was introduced in the scenery and urban life of this city, initially by the architects Edgar Graeff and Ivar Maia de Cesaro. Later, in the 1970s, the architects Nino Roberto Machado and Maria Aldina Porto Nobre began their activities with the NR Architects office, adapting several of their projects to the principles and characteristics of modern architecture. The objective of this article is to carry out a project analysis on the work IB Residence, designed by the NR Architects office in 1984, located in the Rodrigues neighborhood, in Passo Fundo- RS. The design analysis of this residence is intended to understand the design and composition strategies adopted by the architects and to portray the diffusion of modernist architecture in the country.