The Star House

[Antonio Carlos Machado]

Casa da Estrela
  The Star House was built by hand by the counter Augusto Gonçalves de Castro, basically using a hacksaw and tools (reportedly) created by himself. There is no record of his having performed any work earlier or later than this. The construction work was lonely and happened overnight. Despite not having any formal training in carpentry and architecture, the corresponding angles are identical inside the house.
Adept theosophy and enthusiast Esperanto, the universal language, Augustus sought to apply this philosophy in designing the house. The five-pointed star and the pentagon appear throughout the house, because they represent, according to Esperanto, the five continents. Downstairs the rooms communicate through portals leaked by five-pointed stars and the first floor, the rooms are built over an area of ​​circulation in whose center there is a guardrail in the form of a pentagon. The lining of the upper floor forms a five-pointed star and the tacos floor downstairs form a pentagon. Another highlight found in the basement of the house where the central column of the home rests a receptacle shaped like a pentagonal glass. With the exception of the doors and windows, no right angles in every house. It was thought that the coexistence of all who would live in the house was intense.
 The Star House was built in the city of Curitiba in Brazil Alto da Glória neighborhood in the 1930s and that because of it, the street was renamed Dr. Zamenhof Street. The house was inhabited until the 1990s.
Without any similar, Casa da Estrela, an important representative of wooden architecture, traditional technique of Curitiba, was donated to the Catholic University of Paraná (http://www.pucpr.br) heirs, the brothers Idalina Carlos Augusto Azulay and Moses de Castro. The preparations for the transfer of the building has already started. The house will be studied, cataloged, drawn, photographed, numbered each of its parts disassembled, transported, reassembled and restored in Curitiba Campus (Old Meadow) PUCPR.
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