Bairro Roosevelt / Uberlândia - entre suas curvas e retas, o Ideário Moderno de J. J. Coury e as transformações ao longo do tempo

Abstract

Though a complex spatial geometry this Dissertation is developed, which aims to analyses and interpret the urban configuration of a section from the city of Uberlândia/MG. It wants to know its Urban Plan, its genesis, its project application and its transformations, with a unique layout, different from the existing urban design in the city. Interpret the evolution and development, analyzing the built reality as urban consolidation: Presidente Roosevelt Neighborhood. The configurational analysis of the neighborhood’s mesh in a radial, concentric, closed in itself, which discoveries can bring. Designed by João Jorge Coury (1908-1970), pioneering architect in the Triângulo Mineiro, a region of Minas Gerais, one of the states from Brazil. Diffuser of the Modern Movement, he presents the elements of this growing movement in Brazil in the 1950s. The neighborhood’s history begins at Fazenda do Salto, located in the old rural area of the city and the current North Region of the city. With an unorthodox shape for the city, breaking paradigms when referring to orthogonal correlation between Modern Urbanism and the Garden City theorized by Ebenezer Howard and its derivations and how J.J. Coury establishes in his project the elements of these urban references. Using morphological readings in order to decode the curves and straight lines that delineate it, as well as the transformations that have occurred, through the interurban analysis of the neighborhood in four dimensions: functional, topoceptive, socio-spatial and bioclimatic. Through the interpretation of dimensions, the relationship between genesis, implantation and transformations was identified.