UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO
SAO PAULO UNIVERSITY
ESCOLA DE ENGENHARIA DE SÃO CARLOS
SAO CARLOS ENGINEERING SCHOOL
RESTORATION OF THE
OLD TOWN HALL
OF SAO JOSE DO RIO PARDO
SP
Luis Antonio Parreiras Menechino
Major Professor:
Dr. Luiz Gastao de Castro Lima
Thesis submitted to Sao Carlos
Engineering School,
Sao Paulo University,
as part of the requirements for
obtaining Master's degree
in Architecture
SAO CARLOS
SP - Brazil
July 1986
"...As first task, they assumed
the campaign, formerly started,
for repairing and preserving
the Legislative Chamber's old building, at
Captain Vicente Dias Square... "
Part of the first meeting minutes of
Grupo Amigos da Cidade
(City's Friends Group),
in January 15th., 1982.
In memory of my father,
José Menechino
My homage
To my mother,
Walmyra
And
my brother,
José
I dedicate
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
To Prof. Dr. Luiz Gastao de Castro Lima, for his major assistance, incentive and
friendship.
To professors Dr. Claudio Gomes and Dr. Francisco Rocco Lahr, for their
assistance and technical suggestions, and friendly support in critical moments
of this thesis.
To Walmyra Parreiras Menechino, Jose Menechino Junior e Vania Stein
Barbosa, for their support force to make me keep on.
To Amelia Franzolin Trevisan, Maria Angela P. de Castro e Silva Bertolucci,
Rosana Soares Bertocco Parisi e Luiz Paulo Cobra Monteiro, for their technical
and moral support in the execution of this work.
To Jose Eduardo Baptistella, Joao Batista Morais e Gazeta do Rio Pardo, for
their help in illustrations.
To professors and workers of the Architecture and Planning Department, at Sao
Carlos Engineering School, for their dedication and attention given to me.
To my friends and colleagues of the Post Graduation Course, for their
unforgettable friendship and living together.
To Grupo Amigos da Cidade (City's Friends Group), Town Hall of Sao Jose do
Rio Pardo and Companhia Paulista de Energia Eletrica (local Electric Energy
Company), main agents in the restoration of the Old Town Hall of Sao Jose.
and to all those who collaborated in some way for this work to come true.
ABSTRACT
As soon as it stopped being used for its original purposes when the local
executive and legislative chambers were moved to another place in 1.968, the
old Town Hall of São José do Rio Pardo, São Paulo State, Brazil, began
deteriorating due to abandon and misuse.
Listing by the local Council in 1979 was not enough to ensure the
preservation of the building.
In 1982, a group of people led a conservationist movement, the main
goal of which was the restoration of the old Town Hall.
The process began began in 1985 and ended in 1986. The Rio-Pardense
Museum was set up in the building immediately.
The experience held in São José do Rio Pardo is analysed in this thesis
within the greater context of our cultural heritage.
RESUMO
A antiga Casa de Câmara e Cadeia de São José do Rio Pardo, no
Estado de São Paulo, depois que perdeu suas funções originais em 1.968, com
a mudança da Prefeitura e Câmara para outro local, começou a sofrer um
processo de deterioração, com má utilização e abandono.
O tombamento municipal em 1.979 não foi suficiente para garantir a sua
preservação.
Em 1.982, um grupo de pessoas liderou um movimento preservacionista,
cujo objetivo principal era a restauração do velho edifício da Câmara.
A restauração iniciou-se em 1.985 e foi concluída em 1.986. O Museu
Rio-Pardense instalou-se logo em seguida no prédio.
A experiência de São José do Rio Pardo é analisada dentro de um
contexto mais amplo no campo de nosso patrimônio cultural.
RESUMO
Post kiam ĝi perdis siajn originalajn funkciojn, okaze de transloĝiĝo de
urba registaro kaj konsilantaro al alia loko en 1968, la antikva Urbodomo de
São José do Rio Pardo, Ŝtato São Paulo, Brazilo, eksuferis ruinigan proceson
pro forlaso kaj maluzado.
Koncerna registro farita de la urba Konsilantaro en 1.979 ne estis sufiĉa
por garantii prezervadon de la konstruaĵo.
En 1.982, grupo da personoj gvidis konservadan movadon, kies precipa
celo estis restaŭrado de la antikva Urbodomo.
La restaŭrado komenciĝis en 1.985 kaj finiĝis en 1.986.
La Muzeo Rio-Pardense estis instalita tie sinsekve.
La sperto realigita en São José do Rio Pardo esta analizata, en ĉi tiu
disertaĵo, ene de grandampleksa kampo de nia kultura heredaĵo.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 – CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT PRESERVING
CULTURAL HERITAGE
Heritage in Brazil
Heritage in Sao Jose do Rio Pardo
CHAPTER 2 – THE URBAN NUCLEUS – HISTORIC FEATURES
The foundation
Sugar cane and coffee
Autonomy and Town Hall
The immigrants
Urban description
The railrway branch line
The Euclides bridge
From village to city
The judicature
Court of Justice and Jail
The city and the beginning of the 20th Century
CHAPTER 3 – BUILDINGS WITH HISTORIC AND ARCHITECTURAL
VALUE AND ENVINRONMENT
Comments
Historic buildings and reference points
CHAPTER 4 – THE RESTORATION – STUDIES, PROPOSALS AND
EXECUTION
Town Hall: the institution
The origins
The experience held in Sao Jose do Rio Pardo
Proposals for the Old Town Hall area in Sao Jose do Rio
Pardo
Spatial proposals and utilization
Proposals for intervention on the building
COMMENTS, DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCHES
The use
The function
Painting
Hydraulic tiles
Floors and ceilings
Roof tiles
Restoration of roof tiles
Bricks
Chonology of Sao Jose do Rio Pardo Town Hall
The Rio-Pardense Museum
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CHAPTER 5 – REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE PRESERVATION
EXPERIENCE
CONCLUSIONS
QUOTATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATIONS
PICTURE
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Situation of Sao Jose do Rio Pardo
City plan of Sao Jose do Rio Pardo
Aerial pictures of Sao Jose do Rio Pardo, in 1985
Front part of the old St. Joseph’s Mother Church, with the
back of the new Mother Church building
New St. Joseph’s Mother Church, without the front part
View of the Artistic Garden
Statue “Autumn” of Artistic Garden, today at November 15th
Square
Two storey house where Honorio Dias lived, demolished
Old Cinema “Pavilion November 15th”
Façade design for the Pavilion
Town Market
Euclides bridge
Euclides hut, protected by a glass shade
Railway station, restored
St. Rocco Church
Artese building
Slum tenement in Bonsucesso neighborhood
Euclides da Cunha Cultural House
Italian-Brazilian Cultural Center building
Design of the Fascist National Party headquarters (“Partito
Nazionale Fascista) – Sao Jose do Rio Pardo section
(nowadays, the Italian-Brazilian Cultural Center)
A house design in Sao Jose do Rio Pardo
Nr. 61 of the newspaper “A Plateia” (Sao Paulo, 1899)
Court of Justice and Jail building
Water supply design for the city Sao Jose do Rio Pardo,
1901
Architectural survey of the Old Town Hall of São Jose do Rio
Pardo
Architectural survey of the Old Court of Justice and Jail
building
Town Hall main door transom
Location of Town Hall and Court House and Jail buildings
Town Hall main façade
Town Hall constitution, from 1903 to 1982
Initial proposal for the building rear
Second proposal for the building rear
Final decision for the Old Town Hall
Spatial proposal for the Court of Justice and Jaild building,
ground level
Spatial proposal for the Court of Justice and Jail building,
upper level
Spatial proposal for the external area behind both buildings
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Rear view of the whole
Elevation of the whole, profile of both historic buildings
Perspective of the whole
Perspective of library and hemerotheca, based on the
second proposal of intervention
Shear tension on window beams
View of the hall ceiling trelis
View of the old mayor’s room ceiling, before restoration
State of the floor in one of the old jail cells
Falling beam, at a doorway
Brick wedging at the door beam
Cracks in the thresholds
Foundation reinforcement
Cross section, showing the hall roof
Hall sky lighting
Roof structure of the Old Town Hall, view from above
Roof structure of the Old Town Hall, section
Roof external view
Roof internal view
Doors and windows of the Old Town Hall
Back door
Door found when the plaster was removed
Furniture design for the Town Hall
Aerial view of the whole
Rear of the Old Town Hall
Wall with doorway
Painting of the Old Town Hall building
Detail of the restored buildingDetalhe do prédio restaurado
View of Rio-pardense Museum
Diagram drawing of hydraulic tile manufacture process
Tile manufacturing process – stain mixturing and mould
taking off
Tile manufacturing process – pressing and taking off the
cover and frame
Existing types of tiles in the Old Town Hall
Center of hall
Center of corridor
Process of manual roof tile manufaturing
Restoration of roof tiles of the Old Town Hall
Taking roof tiles off the building
Roof tile of the Old Town Hall
Types of bricks found in the Old Town Hall
Study about the utilization of “T1” bricks
Pictures of bricks found in the Old Town Hall
Preparing the specimen
Old picture of the Old Town Hall, published in Brazil-Italy
Album, in 1905
Picture of the Old Town Hall, more recent, although very old
93 Bell which belonged to the Old Town Hall
94 Rio-pardense Museum logo
95 Ballot Box which belonged to the Town Council of Sao Jose
do Rio Pardo
96 Town Hall inside – group of local personalities
97 Town Hall inside – group of officials and the mayor
98 Town Hall inside – group of officials and the mayor
99 Town Hall inside – writing desk with pyrogravures by
Paschoal Artese
100 One of the rooms of Rio-Pardense Museum, internal view,
former sessions room and library
101 Paschoal Artese Hemerotheca room
102 View of Rio-Pardense Museum, showing the two storey
building beside
INTRODUCTION
This work has, as its main study object, the restoration of the Old Town
Hall of Sao Jose do Rio Pardo, and the circumstances in which these studies
were held, the designs and their execution, and the function it was given to it.
Using a practical example as an analysis theme, this thesis searches to
insert it within the greater context, which involves cultural heritage preservation
in Brazil, participations of the population, the government and the private sector,
and the contribution that we, architects, can provide at a technical level.
In the chapter where the restoration experience is described, its reported
decisions and practical attitudes, alternated with some theoretical reflections.
This work, as a language, searches to keep a dialogue in the subject
cultural heritage and its preservation.
The local context comprehends participation of people who formed a
group and their successive struggles to recover old photographs, documents,
objects, historic buildings and environment.
The O Grupo Amigos da Cidade (City’s Friends Group), formed in 1982,
in the city Sao Jose do Rio Pardo, is very similar to many environmental and
preservationists groups that emerged in Brazil in the last years, specially in Sao
Paulo State. The group, without a hierarchy nor a legal existence, has achieved
many victories in consciousnesss-raising over cultural heritage and practical
realizations; its heterogeneous, formed by several graduates and social classes
citizens: technicians, wage-earners, entrepreneurs, teachers, writers, historians
and architects, just to give some examples.
Some members, from 1983, were hired by the city administration,
although the group was not linked to any political party, as well as some
members were invited to participate in non paid city councils, particularly in the
cultural area.
This opening to the municipal government, which in turn counted on the
State Government support, was fundamental for a great number of the Group’s
proposals to come true. Another part, to complete the scene, was the private
sector, including enterprises, cultural centers, social clubs and class
associations.
The support the Group got was due to its members’ seriousness and
laboriousness, acting in an incisive and persistent way on the proposed tasks,
obtaining great prestige in the city.
Much involved with the process, since the campaign to the restoration of
the Old Town Hall, in a certain moment it was difficult for me to keep myself
away from all that, in order to be able to write this work, and I hope it can be a
contribution to the study of our cultural heritage.
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