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The work in which this paper is based is hosted by the Laboratory of Urban Analysis and Digital Representation, and brings together two research lines of the Graduate Program in Urban Planning (PROURB / FAU/UFRJ): History of the City and Urbanism and Digital Graphics.

The historical object studied is the work of the French architect Joseph Gire (1876- 1933) in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in the first decade of the twentieth century, he designed a series of bourgeois houses in Paris, the hôtels particuliers. In 1910, Gire begins an international career designing many upper class buildings of considerable size. In Brazil, he designed many (although yet to be accurately quantified) projects in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. However, his work remains unknown in most countries, including France.

The research methodology is drawn from History of Culture, and seeks to map and understand the dialogues maintained by this architect in the city of Rio de Janeiro, contributing to the development of a strategy of analysis and presentation of the works in question. We depart from the notion of cultural exchange, the circulation of ideas and transculturation as a transitive process from one culture to another, therefore avoiding the notion of a one-way conversation with European ideas dominating local production. The analysis is not restricted to the classification of works by architectural styles, but has the objective to examine the transformations in the built environment, urban morphology and social processes either catalyzed or incorporated by these buildings, therefore characterized as “urban icons” at some degree.

Two of these urban icons are studied in depth, in order to help develop an online application that depicts the architecture works of Gire in Rio: the Copacabana Palace Hotel (1923) and a residential building at Flamengo Beach (1923). For the construction of the digital database, we studied interaction models seeking more subjective and flexible ways to classify, organize and relate data from different source documents as well as different architectural objects records. We also created a navigation prototype to demonstrate and compare tectonic aspects of the buildings, such as structure, materials and construction methods. It also allows the depiction of the buildings’ urban environments as well as their morphological, typological and social contexts, along with their uses and spatiality thus helping envision not only various aspects of the buildings, but also their relationships with the city and with different trends of architectural and urban thought.

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Este trabalho tem por objetivo expor reflexões acerca da utilização da computação gráfica no ambiente da pesquisa acadêmica. Tais reflexões e suas consequentes metodologias de aplicação desenvolveram-se a partir de experiências com a modelagem tridimensional relacionadas aos trabalhos realizados no grupo LAURD – Laboratório de Análise Urbana e Representação Digital – que se dedica à utilização das potencialidades desta ferramenta para explorar inéditas possibilidades de representar leituras sobre ícones arquitetônicos e sua inserção no ambiente urbano. Ao longo deste processo, pôde-se desenvolver determinados conceitos metodológicos que direcionaram a elaboração do modelo tridimensional que representa o principal objeto de estudo do grupo LAURD – o edifício do Ministério da Educação e Saúde, também conhecido como Palácio Gustavo Capanema. Neste artigo serão abordadas as metodologias desenvolvidas a partir destes conceitos, assim como serão expostos os resultados obtidos com o modelo elaborado com estas diretrizes.

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This paper has the objective to expose ideas about the signification of computer graphics in an academic research environment. Those ideas and their consequent work methodologies were developed from experiences with 3d modeling related to the work produced within the research group LAURD, meaning Digital Representation and Urban Analysis Laboratory, which dedicates itself to research the potentialities of those tools in order to explore new possibilities of analysis and studies representations about architectural icons and their insertion in the urban environment. Along this process, could be developed some methodological concepts which conducted the elaboration of 3d models of LAURD’s main study case – the Health and Education Ministry building, also known as Gustavo Capanema Palace. In this paper will be explained the methodologies developed from those concepts, and the consequent results of the 3d model made with them.

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This paper exposes site “Cidade Interativa” development process, based on: a reflection about importance of users’ points of view’s incorporation for space remodelling; a study about theoretical and practical experiences which, in different ways, approached potencialities of participation of a community’s members in a project; and, finally, a investigation of propagation alternatives of individual readings as information source for urban project, trying to enhance points of view that generally remain occult in the form of invisible practices of anonymous users. This site must be understood as concretion of an idea: creating a vehicle from which is possible to become individual readings public, so that these are shared and, also, make them available to people responsible for urban projects as information source.