The transformations of the factory space in S. Caetano do Sul-SP in the XXth century:: the case of I.R.F. Matarazzo

Abstract

This analysis looks at transformations of industrial space in the twentieth century tries to establish a link between the permanence and alternation of the factory forms, through their materialization in the relation time-space. It aims to analyse how the technical apparatus employed in the industry conformed urban spaces, and this apparatus, once overcome, leaves its inheritance in the closing of an industrial cycle, in the environmental and social impact, in underused or neglected urban areas. Through historical documentation, sought to analyse how the suppression, accumulation and superposition of factory works conform "rugosidades”, which according to the vision of Milton Santos, are manifested in the rivers Tamanduateí and Meninos, the tracks of the train, a religious building and industrial chimneys. These crystallizations of space-time presented in São Caetano do Sul (SP), suburb of São Paulo, are a potential reference for the transformation of urban space, the arrival of a new cycle, serving as a study for perception of movements and events that will surely come.