Héctor Vigliecca e o tema da habitação: um projeto de construção de cidade

Abstract

The research aims to analyze the housing projects and urbanization proposals of the architect Héctor Vigliecca, seeking to understand the design strategies used to establish a consistent relationship between architecture and the city, that is, the strategies used to “build the city”. In order to analyze the construction of the city through housing, architectural and urban analyzes are made of four housing projects in Vigliecca: Conjunto Conjunto, Reurbanização do Complexo Paraisópolis, Colina D’oeste/Morro Socó and Jardim Vicentina. It works with the hypothesis that the look at the city, the careful interpretation of the urban space – that is, the architect’s way of building the city – finds its roots in his training and in his first professional years in his home country. , that is, in the contact of the architect and his generation, in Uruguay in the 1960s, with the context of criticism of the Modern Movement, which somehow led them to a peculiar performance in urbanization of social housing within the scope of housing cooperatives . As methodological procedures, bibliographic reviews and textual and graphic architectural and urban analysis were carried out. To carry out the analyses, a specific script was elaborated based on the “five mantras of urban design” established by Vigliecca, which, according to him, synthesize the basic criteria for the construction of the city. The research results indicate that the context of criticism in which he acted in his early years of work was not only important, but fundamental for the construction of his thinking and his vision of the role of urban planners and architects in the face of the city. Some of the teachings of that moment are clearly presented in his projects: connection of the set with the existing city so that the new is solidary with the existing, search for qualified spaces, idea of identity and appropriation, precepts that seek to make cities more livable and connected with their citizens.