NUMERICAL AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BUILDING OF THE RURAL SCHOOL ALBERTO TORRES IN RECIFE-PE

Resumo

The project of the Alberto Torres Rural School building in Recife dates from 1935 and was
the fruit of a pioneering initiative for Brazilian modernism. The creation of the Architecture and
Urbanism Board - Diretoria de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (DAU), founded in 1934 by Luiz Nunes, an
architect graduated from the Escola de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro, from where it took influences of
Lúcio Costa and Le Corbusier. The project analyzed in this work is authored by Luiz Nunes himself and
has the structural calculation signed by Joaquim Cardozo. Known as the "Engineer of Poetry," Cardozo
is considered a pioneer of the Modern Movement and later would excel as the calculator of the main
works of Oscar Niemeyer, in Pampulha and Brasília. Joaquim Cardozo is responsible for a real technical
revolution in Brazilian engineering, stimulated and inspired by the projects of great architects with
whom he worked throughout his career. In this work an analysis of the structural project of the Rural
School Alberto Torres is sought to show elements of creativity of the designer to balance the structure.
A qualitative numerical analysis of the structural solution is performed using the computational tools
available as the SAP 2000 software. The analyzes seek to understand the efforts to which the structure
is subject and to verify the protagonism of the structural solution, innovative for the time, in the aesthetic
architectural style that is aligned with the precepts of modernism.