A arquitetura feminina: o cotidiano e os ambientes residenciais nas villas e casas de catálogo em Pelotas-RS

Abstract

Architecture can be understood as a physical means by which the intangible relations of society are manifested. Residential buildings, in particular, can reproduce in their projective intentions, patriarchal logics of control and separation of individuals. This research is developed in order to understand how women inhabit or inhabit the space of the house. In particular, in a type of residences produced in the early twentieth century, in Pelotas-RS, the detached house on the lot, also known as Villa or Catalog House. This architecture is strongly influenced by the events of the turn of the 19th century to the 20th century, which brought significant changes in the proposal of the inhabit. The concern with hygiene, manifested in the search for the aemenization and insolation of homes, driven by the great epidemics that plagued cities in previous years, added to the significant advances in technologies and infrastructure propitiate their emergence. The historical-bibliographic research, together with the survey of identification of remaining specimens in the city, revealed a considerable production of goods of interest still existing in the urban network. The conduct of interviews with its residents allowed a new horizon of interpretation for the research. It was possible to understand that these goods have strong sentimental significance. The reports present architecture as an agent of everyday life, which interacts and demands on residents but also changes under the rhythm of the dynamics of family cycles. At this moment, women, inhabitants of these residences, assume a leading role, transgressing the conventional proposals of the current spatial needs programs and organizations, proposed by architects, engineers and builders, building a feminine architecture there.