Comparative Analysis of the Transformation and Morphology of the Landscape of two Neighboring Public Spaces: Paris Square and the Esplanade of the National Monument for the Dead Soldiers of the Second World War, In Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The aim of the present article is to analyse differences and analogies between two neighboring public spaces existing in Gloria, a transitional neighborhood located between the center and the southern zone in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. These spaces are Paris Square and the Esplanade of the National Monument for the Dead Soldiers of the Second World War. The article begins with a brief historical and a formal analysis of both spaces, wich introduces to the main focus of the work: the analysis of the transformation and the morphology of the landscape of these spaces, where vegetation, built volumetry, ground division patterns, typology, density, the hyerarchical relations with the city, formal and functional relations with the surroundings, environmental aspects, internal hyerarchies, permeability and functional distribution and patterns are verified.