The Unversity Campus by EPUCS: the study of its spacial proposition and historic context
EPUCS; Campus; Universidade da Bahia.
This research analyzes the "Placement Study for the University Campus by EPUCS”. It is a proposition of campus for the Universidade da Bahia presented just one year after its foundation. This study has the potential to promote new discussions about the universities as a big scale urban project and about the urban planning developed by the Escritório do Plano de Urbanismo da Cidade do Salvador (EPUCS) based on the historic context of its proposition wich brings together the emergence of the urbanism as a professional field in Bahia and the moment of creation of federal universities in Brazil. The methodology adopted was based on the documentary survey and the analyzes to connect this documents with the related bibliography.
The campus proposed was directly related to the ideals of urbanization and modernization proposed for the city of Salvador by the EPUCS and was part of a macro planning that was meant to lead the city towards progress. The implantation was proposed on the highlands of Engenho Velho de Brotas, next to the Dique do Tororó and the Fonte Nova stadium.
After analyze the study developed by EPUCS in a comparative way with the projects of the University of Brazil (UB) and the University of São Paulo (USP), it is possible to reinforce the relation with the propositions for the UB (which at the time was still called the Universidade do Rio de Janeiro) designed by Marcello Piacentini, Le Corbusier and Lúcio Costa.