HALL OF BRAZIL
Apparently the first contacts between the English and Brazilian government on that country's possible participation in the Expo Seville, were not very encouraging. In 1924 the English representative in Rio de Janeiro informed the Minister of State, the opinion of both political and patriotic circles were against the entry into the tournament in Seville, among other reasons for the recent and significant absence from Spain in the commemorative events the centenary of its independence, as well as the lack of relevant information and the lack of Ibero-American mentality that was present in Brazil.
However, as manifestations of that representative, could get his concurrence by the insertion of articles in various media, appealing to national prestige in the Latin American concert, promoting rivalry with Argentina, which if present would the sample and the use of pro-exposure campaign launched by the English Chamber of Commerce in Rio de Janeiro. It is to praise the work of both the English and represent the colony in that country for their persistence and results
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these early obstacles, in mid March 1926 it was learned who had agreed to participate and later in January 1927 that you would with a permanent flag. The continuing budget cuts, the 5,000,000 contos of reis assigned initially passed to 1.250.00 in the end were used for financing the Brazilian competition, led to the decision to build a temporary building contrary announced.
was taken possession of the land allotted on 25 June 1927, started work in January 1928, having been awarded to the company roads and irrigation 749,461.20 pts, establishing the deadline for the January 15 following year, then scheduled for the inauguration of the event but construction was not completed until mid-February 1929.
The plot designated for the construction of the Pavilion of Brazil was at the Queen Victoria or Avd de la Palmera, in the Glorieta de Mexico next to the flag of this country. At first this plot had been chosen by Uruguay for the edification of their flag, but was awarded to Brazil by the Executive Committee.
The two pavilions are placed independently without any predetermined relationship which creates residual spaces, this fact is so significant that it affects up to the point that only the facade will be the only element in question and relevant detail, forgetting other fronts, sides and rear, to which holes are opened without further claim, being immersed in the residual area where they belong.
Aerial view of the building next to the neighbor Mexico Pavilion.
Pavilion of Brazil, like most of those built for the exhibition, wanted to be an exponent, both for its architecture and contents of the characteristics of the country he represents. Designed by Pedro Paulo Bernardes Vast, he designed a temporary building inspired by the most significant of Brazilian architecture such as the Brazilian baroque.
can not speak of a vernacular architecture, indigenous culture and takes refuge inside the country, but rather the result of the colonization process, which started by the Portuguese in 1580 founded towns on the coast, developed at the country with the Jesuits and the Dutch contribution. It is because the colonial manifestation of what was happening in the metropolis, whose most significant buildings were the churches that are based on the Portuguese Baroque, and more specifically on the influence exerted Nicholas Nazoni in Portugal, with the use of large steps in doors of palaces and temples, the portholes for windows and profusely decorated and loaded, softening creating undulating pediments and capricious.
While that is an early work of Pedro Paulo Bernar-des, the provisional nature of it and the poor quality of the building contrasts with the strength, size and dimensions of the State of Maracana, which years later rise in Rio de Janeiro.
State hall and start of the stairs, where was located the local police.
The pavilion occupies an area of \u200b\u200b2,500 m2 and consists of a square-shaped building, 50 x 50 mts. with inner courtyard central, the ship corresponding to the main facade is two stories and basement, with only a basement floor and the other three vessels that surround the courtyard. His inauguration took place on May 26, 1929 by SMD Alfonso XII at a grand ceremony.
primitive hall decoration
Access to the building is via the existing stairway in a semicircular colonnade, which leads to the great hall to start the bottom of which a double staircase giving access to the upper floor, all framed by a false portico on Corinthian columns raised on podiums, and the gateway to the central courtyard formed by arch ornamented with glazed ceramic green background with the coat of arms. The rectangular hall occupies the entire length of the front and was adorned with two artistic brick and ceramic banks like those installed in the facade, as well as a beautiful lamp with shields central Spain and Brazil made by students Framers School.
The courtyard level lower than the rest of the building was a garden, in which the retention of the existing trees before work and complete with tropical plants, the background was an arc background decorated ceramic green with the inscription "United States de Brasil” con el escudo nacional en el centro y el nombre de todos los Estados Federados, bajo el cual existía un gran estanque al que daba una terraza con acceso a través del la nave frontal. El patio estaba rodeado por un claustro formado por ventanales con arco de medio punto y medias columnas con capitel corintio elevadas sobre podios hasta la altura de la planta baja, y el pavimento de olambrilla con motivos del Quijote. El antepecho de los arcos lo formaban celosías de trazado geométrico en zigzag, este dibujo se repetía en la cornisa que remataba las paredes del patio.
La planta alta, de la nave de la fachada, contaba de un gran salón central y dos alas con dos terrazas cubiertas y otras dos descubiertas a los extremos; in the main hall was a large stained glass windows installed with the shield of Brazil.
The main facade, the most decorated, was divided into three blocks, the plant that makes the main shaft and at higher elevations, and two smaller side than that, linked by paths wings. The whole facade was topped by an undulating sill and capricious, especially marked in the middle. The socket is replaced by artistic side and ceramic benches in the center of the curved stairway access, where stood a semicircular colonnade formed by paired Corinthian columns and topped base po flower vases. The access door was made of a concave-convex arc on which designed a tripartite window with twisted columns.
Quad State as a local police headquarters before the final performance
It should be noted, the tripartite composition in the treatment of the front windows, differentiated its different treatment plants, and on the ground floor were topped with a crown as a pediment framed by columns and decorative brackets at the bottom. To the top floor skylights were used as a porthole, with plant ornamentation on top and ornamental brackets profile convex on the bottom.
curvilinear This composition is very decorative facade and Baroque, especially the moldings of the cornices of auction, its volutes, columns and the gallons of the openings.
Vista del patio in its original form
The craft circled the courtyard, had numerous exit doors to faculty that facilitated the movement of visitors. In the right aisle was a diorama of Rio de Janeiro of the young artist Hans Nobauert, and others engaged in the extraction of rubber and coal mines. And a ceramic box reproducing the three most important waterfalls of Brazil, made by the Portuguese ceramist George Colaço great.
ship in the background, setting out a sample of rich wood of the country and the ship left an exhibition of all the machinery necessary for the preparation and operation of coffee, from sorting and cleaning up the mill with which was prepared for infusion. He also outlined a geographical map of the English provinces of 3 x 4 m., furniture and cabinets made in the College of Artificers.
Detail the richness of the wooden floor in different areas of the flag as the lobby, stairs, gallery and halls .
has great importance for their quality and originality, living floors, stairs and hall, made with Brazilian wood tile matching colors and it was a sign over the wealth of that country.
In the basement, in the same area as the first floor, was installed an American bar to mate coffee tasting, chocolate and cocoa for free to visitors.
The products listed in the wing were of great variety, combining exposures officers with individuals for the display of food items and coffee diverse industries, timber, fiber, cotton and oil fruits, cocoa and its derivatives, furniture and tapestries, fine minerals and gemstones, musical instruments, indigenous fruit wax silver objects, textiles, hats, footwear, medicines and snuff products.
also could see cars, turbines, precision presses. textile machinery, perfumes and rubber. There was a section devoted to information books, newspapers and magazines that were published in that country. You published an informative book on economic resources the country.
As a curiosity we say that the Brazilian government sent for exhibition, a "ônibus" which was the first car built entirely in the country, including the engine, capable of carrying loads up to seven tons.
Some of the works of Hans Nöbauer that may have been exposed. From top to bottom do Carmo Church, the Count of Paço Assumar. Marilia House and the Church of St. Efigenia .
Although no reference found of the paintings exhibited in the pavilion, we know that the painter Antonio Parreiras, a member of Grimm, won gold medal of the Exhibition for their participation. Hans is also likely to expose Nöbauer twelve paintings in the sample very homogeneous medium format representing urban buildings of the colonial period, made in 1928. All collections were transferred to the Antwerp International Exposition of 1930, after the completion, the National History Museum in Rio de Janeiro where you can admire today.
week in Brazil was held on November 11, 1929, after which the Brazilian government began to neglect the development of sample and five months before the close of the event, in January 1930, the pavilion is closed, not knowing the exact day. This could occur by not having obtained the desired results, but also to save transportation costs and customs, so it was decided to move the material exhibited in Seville at the Antwerp Exhibition to be held early this year. It is probable that this approach was in the minds of the organizers from the beginning, refusing the assignment given, reversing the flag and the land to the city, used as a nursery school at the end of the Exhibition
Interior of one of the halls during the exhibition .
In 1935 the building was made in a series of works in order to consolidate and give other uses, resulting in a radical modification of it, to the point of being able to talk about two different buildings. In this transformation what is most striking are the changes made to the facade, even without losing symmetry, otherwise the original crown, emphasizing the central character giving cover, the rest of the façade divided into three symmetric part.
With these actions and the elimination of decorative elements that Adobe's façade, as the removal of twisted columns, banks, shell window sill, and the bull's-eye forms thereof, is lost to the baroque language which had been designed. They last
these transformations, paving, remains part of the elevation of the patio, even losing the columns with Corinthian capitals, also endures the peristyle entrance stairway, the columns being replaced in the same style as the patio, by pairs of pillars brick, keeping the door with curved lines. They were also deleted the columns of the portico of the hall, turning them into pillars.
was first used as headquarters of Health, more Falange later as barracks, then between 1960 and 1965 hosted the Technical School of Architecture and and when it moved to its headquarters in the Avd Reina Mercedes, became a refuge, as the flag of neighboring Mexico.
Ultimately it becomes a multipurpose building, arriving until many years as Local Police Headquarters, the headquarters of the Delegation of Public Safety of the City of Seville. In January 1999, the City Council for twenty years gave the University of Seville, starting in the summer of 2003 under the direction of the architect Miguel Gonzalez Vilchez, intervention and reform of the building ending in 2005. After this recent action is the seat of Vice President of the University of Seville.
Arco with the coat of Brazil surrounded by the names of the states. Opening day of the stand by King Afonso XIII will
Unlike other flags that have survived with all its original architectural heritage, this is not an example or prototype of beauty that many came to achieve, or its quality or for its construction procedure. We have come a transformed, though still maintain the original structure, we can say that is a totally renovated building in which the original designers ideas for the they were conceived, have been replaced by other compo-positive elements that reflect the spirit of the local architecture of the time he was reformed.
facade and staircase access from the front door now . THE SPANISH FILM ARCHIVE
edited a book entitled "THE EXHIBITION OF 1929" TO BE PICKED UP IN THE PICTURES OF THE EXHIBITION OF LATIN AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL SEVILLA BARCELONA BELOW IS INSERTED A COLLECTION OF DIFFERENT COURTS IN CONNECTION WITH THIS HALL LISTED IN THIS WORK
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