Inventário do patrimônio arquitetônico e histórico em Santa Isabel do Sul ”“ Arroio Grande-RS: o caso das edificações institucionais e de socialização

Abstract

This paper stems from the research entitled Inventory of Architectural Heritage of Santa Isabel do Sul ”“ Arroio Grande-RS. It presents the listing and records of local surviving architectural and urban structures that bear the cultural values of the region. The main goals of this work involve recovering and learning about the local architecture, as regards both its aesthetical and historical values. This work’s specific goal, in turn, involves presenting a historical description of the location, as well as records and documentation of surviving old buildings. The methodology applied is historically-oriented and the inventory as a research tool requires the use of several techniques and procedures, e.g. expeditious photographic survey, metric architectural survey, and the filling in of records of architectural characterization and historical contextualization. The most relevant results obtained were: (a) knowledge of buildings’ current state of decharacterization, which enables comparison with previous diagnoses; (b) knowledge of the plans of all the buildings studied, a piece of information not known prior to this research. It is possible to conclude that the village of Santa Isabel do Sul has architectural remains that are highly significant because of their historical value and ”“ despite their decharacterization and state of abandonment ”“ depiction of aesthetical elements of the architecture that was typical of Rio Grande do Sul’s early urbanization period.