The standardization of projects of apartment buildings: notes on marketing, funding, and architecture

Authors

  • Felipe Anitelli University of São Paulo (USP)
  • Marcelo Tramontano University of São Paulo (USP)

Abstract

The aim of this article is to link certain funding rules of Banco Nacional de Habitação-BNH (National Housing Bank) to projects of apartment buildings constructed in São Paulo City with its financial support. During the period that BNH operated in Brazil (from 1964 to 1986), real estate entrepreneurs in the city connected project possibilities proposed in their ventures to legislative constraints imposed by BNH. These technical standards, resolutions, instructions, manuals, and so forth, determined how the general characteristics of the apartment building should be. As a result, this action contributed significantly to the standardization of spatial solutions of apartments. This article also identifies some of the interests of property developers, BNH, and architects, who somehow participated in this funding system of public housing.

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Author Biographies

Felipe Anitelli, University of São Paulo (USP)

He is an Architect and Master in Architecture and Urbanism, researcher at Nomads.usp Center for Interactive Living Studies of the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, studies design projects of apartment buildings in Sao Paulo and Brazil.

Marcelo Tramontano, University of São Paulo (USP)

He is an Architect, Doctor in Architecture. Associate Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, coordinator of Nomads.usp, investigates the computerization of everyday life in the scales of the body, the object, the building and the city, and the relations among familial, social and spatial structures.

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Published

2011-07-01

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 05 (2011): V!05 Places of Living: Revisited

Section

Nomads