Universidade Gama Filho – Paisagem e Geossímbolo

Abstract

The Gama Filho University (UGF), located in the Piedade neighborhood, North Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, was built at the end of the 1930s, allowing a new provision of the neighborhood, encouraging its growth, from its functioning and all activities carried out and provided by the institution throughout its 75 years of operation. Alongside this, it is worth mentioning the relationships establishing ties of identity, belonging and the configuration of different landscapes that, from the perspective of cultural humanist geography, was and still is understood from the experiences in that place. The analysis also seeks to show that the creation of the University promoted a strong economic development, associated Piedade in a place of attraction of shared activities and people. In view of the above, the economic growth and urban development of the studied area are visible, as the flow of services persisted and multiplied based on the demand required by the UGF, be it students and employees, as well as the services offered, which can be verified from the impact that this increase has on the area in terms of generating new jobs and income. Still in the conjuncture we studied, approaching its trajectory, origin, operation and post-collapse we verified that the University was chosen reference in the neighborhood of Piedade. Thus, an educational institution radiates feelings, meanings and landscapes to residents that remain in the imagination of residents, bringing memories due to the relationships established in that block during the long period of its operation. In order to obtain the expected results, the applied methodology is supported by bibliographical references that cover and understand the monument and the symbolism that the institution represents to the residents of the neighborhood, as well as a historical contextualization of the spatial cut, becoming viable through the work in the field, in order to present the characteristics of the Gama Filho University over the years and also to understand its relationship with residents.