Bangalô: análise do habitar em recorte da avenida Getúlio Vargas em São Luís

Abstract

São Luís has numerous samples of urban identities that show the advancement of architecture throughout the modernization of the city, which start from a need to adapt to the time in which it is built and involvement with the local scene. Originally found in India in the nineteenth century, the Bungalow brings to Brazil a new way of living, according to the new perspective of European and American housing, which connected man to nature and kept him away from the big cities. In São Luís, the first record of this type of dwelling appears in the 1930s, in the magazine Cruzeiro, and it adopted a mixture of architectural details. However, the bungalow was not limited to the city’s Center, it was a style that multiplied in the city along the expansion route of São Luís, from the well-known Caminho Grande. For this reason, this work intends to analyze the presence of the Bungalow architectural style, in order to understand how it reflects the society in which it is inserted and the evolution of local architecture styles, as well as how to keep them alive and in a good state of conservation