Full Documentation Fiche 2011 composed by national/regional working party of: Brazil

Full Documentation Fiche 2011

composed by national/regional working party of: Brazil

source: Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira (IPPMG). [http://www.ippmg.org.br/conteudo/albumFotosDetalhes.asp?id=4]

date: (ca.1950).

source: CZAJKOWSKI, Jorge (Org.). Jorge Machado Moreira. Rio de Janeiro: SMU; Centro de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, 1999.

source: CZAJKOWSKI, Jorge (Org.). Jorge Machado Moreira. Rio de Janeiro: SMU; Centro de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, 1999.

date: (ca.1953).

source: Imagem UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). [http://www.imagem.ufrj.br/index.php?acao=detalhar_imagem&id_img=1140] date: 1954.

source: Imagem UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). [http://www.imagem.ufrj.br/index.php?acao=detalhar_imagem&id_img=1109] date: 1953.

source: Imagem UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). [http://www.imagem.ufrj.br/index.php?acao=detalhar_imagem&id_img=1115] date: (ca.1949-53).

source: Imagem UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). [http://www.imagem.ufrj.br/index.php?acao=detalhar_imagem&id_img=1138] date: (ca.1953).

source: Renato Wandeck. Painel de Burle Marx no Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira Rio de Janeiro-RJ 1952. CONHECER NO RIO Painéis: Azulejos, Cerâmicos, Pastilhas, Mosaicos etc. [www.ceramicanorio.com/conhecernorio/burlemarxfundao/painelfundaoburlemarx. html].

1. Identity of building/ group of buildings/ group of buildings/

landscape/

garden

1. 1 Data for identification

current name: Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira (IPPMG). former/original/variant name: Instituto Nacional de Puericultura (National Puericulture Institute)

number(s) and name(s) of street(s): Av. Brigadeiro Trompowski, s/n - Ilha Cidade Universitária.

town: Rio de Janeiro

province/state: Rio de Janeiro post code: 21941-970

block: - lot: -

country: Brazil

national topographical grid reference:-

current typology: Specialized Hospital - Pediatry former/original/variant typology: Horizontal monoblock comments on typology:

1. 2 Status of protection

protected by: none. grade: -

date:- valid for: - remarks:-

1. 3 Visually or functionally related building(s)/site(s)

name(s) of surrounding area/building(s): Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho (HUCFF/UFRJ).

visual relations: functional relations: other relations:

2. History of building(s) etc.

2. 1 Chronology

Note if the dates are exactly known (e) or approximately estimated = circa (c) or (±) commission or competition date:

design period(s): - start of site work: 1949

completion/inauguration: 1953

2. 2 Summary of development

commission brief: design brief:

building/construction: 1949-1953. completed situation:

original situation or character of site:

2. 3 Relevant persons/organisations

original owner(s)/patron(s): Universidade do Brasil.

architect(s): Escritório Técnico da Universidade do Brasil (EBTU), staff leaded by Jorge Machado Moreira.

landscape/garden designer(s):Roberto Burle Marx. other designer(s): -

consulting engineer(s): building contractor(s):

2. 4 Other persons or events associated with the building(s)/site

name(s): Joaquim Martagão Gesteira

association: The Institute is honored with the name of this pediatrician (1884-1954), born in Bahia, whom is attributed the merit of obtaining a teaching facility worthy for pediatrics in Rio de Janeiro. Until then, the medical study had been giving in makeshift and inadequate places.

event(s): period:

2. 5 Summary of important changes after completion

type of change: alteration/renovation/restoration/extension/other: date(s):

circumstances/reasons for change: effects of changes:

persons/organisations involved:

3. Description of building(s) etc.

3. 1 Site/building character

Summarize main character and give notes on surviving site/building(s)/part(s) of area.

If a building: main features, construction and materials.

The Puericulture Institute was designed in three distinct blocks. On the Block “A” were i nstalled the offices and clinics of pediatrics and child care - both with exam rooms, classrooms, among others. The Block “B” was assigned to the hospital and included a three-storey building. On the first floor were located the administrative offices of the institute (administration, warehouse, cafeteria of enlisted personnel, kitchen and dietary), the amphitheater and museum of children health and disease. The second floor was designed to wards the center of premature children, the cafeteria and a playground. The third floor was for the library, the principal's office, the meeting room of doctors and a winter garden. Finally, in Block C were installed the pupilheira, day care, shelter and nursery school childcare attendants.

3. 2 Current use

of whole building/site: hospital

of principal components (if applicable): comments:

3. 3 Present (physical) condition

of whole building/site:

of principal components (if applicable): of other elements (if applicable): of surrounding area (if applicable): comments:

3. 4 Note(s) on context, indicating potential developments

Indicate, if known, potential developments relevant for the conservation/threats of the building/site

4. Evaluation

Give the scientific reasons for selection for docomomo documentation

Intrinsic value

4. 1 technical evaluation: The building located in the Cidade Universidade island was built according to a complex program that established the division into four sectors - outpatient, hospital, bank and shelter maternal milk - which gave materiality to the precepts advocated by Dr. Martagão Gesteira. According to the physician, for the proper development of teaching practical and efficient childcare was important to have a heathy "human material", that is, newborns and their mothers / infants. Thus, an essential condition for the education and training of specialists in child care outside the womb was the construction of a "maternal shelter" along with a "pupilheira" (“ponponnière”) - where the babies were allocated.

4. 2 social evaluation: The Puericulture Institute cornerstone was laid during a offical cerimony at the 16th of october in 1937, with the presence of the President Getúlio Vargas, in a site near the Faculty of Medicine, located at Praia Vermelha, with a former project designed by Oscar Niemeyer, but never used. However, in the next day of the cerimony the ministry of Education and Health, Mr. Gustavo Capanema, suspended the beginning of the works, motivated by decision of transfering the institute to newly created Brazil University.

4. 3 cultural and aesthetic evaluation:

The architecture design represents the purest expression of carioca modernism. It was conceived to take advantage of the sloping terrain and develops itself into interconnected low blocks, which the number of floors, height and width requirements follows the need of the building function. The rationality is evident in the construction of orthogonal arrangement of the blocks and the ratio of openings and materials used - such as bricks and hollow square or small windows and large glass panels - creating areas of shade and protection and better use of the sun.

The blocks are interconnected and provide courtyards for socializing the patients and staff, and allows good ventilation and light to all rooms. The orthogonality of the block is broken by the organic landscaping designed by Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) and by the coverage in domes placed at one end of the central block. The architectural project received the first place in the category of hospital buildings in the International Exhibition of Architecture of the Second International Biennial of Sao Paulo (1953-1954).

Comparative significance

4. 4 canonical status (local, national, international)

The Puericulture National Institute, a pediatric hospital of the Universidade do Brasil, was the first building finished for the campus of Cidade Universitária.

4. 5 historic and reference values:

The project of the institute was developed under the general plan of the campus, conducted between 1949 and 1962 by the design staff of the Tecnical Bureau of Brazil University (EBTU). The general plan followed the model of rational planning. From initial design, only five buildings were constructed, including the Puericulture National Institute.

5. Documentation

5. 1 archives/written records/correspondence etc. (state location/ address): 5. 2 principal publications (in chronological order):

“Instituto de Puericultura da Universidade do Brasil”. IN: Jornal do Commercio, 1953, il.

“Instituto de Puericultura da Universidade do Brasil”. IN: Revista Paulista de Hospitais, ano V, Volume V, n. 3, março de 1957, p. 23-31, il.

Czajkowski, Jorge (org.). Jorge Machado Moreira. Rio de Janeiro: Centro de Arquitetura e Urbanismo do Rio de Janeiro, 1999.

http://www.ippmg.org.br/, acessado em 25 de agosto de 2007.

PORTO, Ângela et al. História da saúde no Rio de Janeiro: instituições e patrimônio arquitetônico – Rio de Janeiro (1808-1958). Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fiocruz; 2008.

HERBST, Helio. Pelos salões das bienais, a arquitetura ausente dos manuais: contribuições para a historiografia brasileira (1951-1959). São Paulo: Annablume; FAPESP, 2011.

5. 3 visual material (state location/ address)

original visual records/drawings/photographs/others: recent photographs and survey drawings:

5. 4 list documents included in supplementary dossier

6. Fiche report

name of reporters: Guilherme Marcondes, Felipe Abdala, Martha Freire, Gisele Sanglard, Renato Gama-Rosa and Inês Andrade.

address: Rua Barata Ribeiro, 659/101. Copacabana. Rio de Janeiro. RJ telephone: + 55 21 2255 0940

fax: + 55 21 3865 2212 e-mail: rgrc@fiocruz.br; date of report: december/2011

examination by DOCOMOMO national/regional section

approval by working party co-ordinator/registers correspondent (name): sign and date:

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examination by DOCOMOMO ISC/R

name of ISC member in charge of the evaluation: comment(s):

sign and date: ISC/R approval: date:

working party/ref. n° : NAi ref. n°: