Banca de DEFESA: ROMÁRIO SOUZA OLIVEIRA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ROMÁRIO SOUZA OLIVEIRA
DATE: 29/01/2026
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência Google Meet
TITLE:

SPIRITUAL BREATHING: PROPOSED BUILDING RENOVATION OF THE SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF RN WITH EMPHASIS ON AMBIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMFORT.

KEY WORDS:

Architectural Project; Ambiance; Restorative Spaces; Biophilic Design; Environmental Comfort; Architectural Project; Religious Architecture.

PAGES: 187
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUBÁREA: Projeto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SPECIALTY: Planejamento e Projetos da Edificação
SUMMARY:

This Professional Master’s dissertation, also structured as a Technical Report, presents a renovation-and-expansion project for an institutional religious building dedicated to the study and dissemination of the Spiritist movement in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Constructed in 1976, the building underwent piecemeal interventions over the decades, resulting in spatial conflicts, accessibility restrictions, and shortcomings in environmental performance. The project proposes the architectural revitalisation of the Federaçāo Espírita do Rio Grande do Norte (FERN) headquarters, grounded in the concepts of ambience, environmental comfort, biophilic design, and restorative spaces. Its aim is to enhance the building’s environmental and spiritual quality by optimising natural light, promoting cross-ventilation, and integrating interior and exterior vegetated areas. The design addresses challenges such as direct solar exposure, insufficient natural ventilation, and the absence of green spaces, proposing strategies that reconcile environmental performance with sensory experience. The proposal was developed through a theoretical and conceptual investigation of the phenomenology of space, contemporary religious architecture, and ambience as a sensitive and restorative experience. On this basis, surveys and design studies were conducted to guide the principles of intervention, aiming to restore the built environment’s environmental, symbolic and spiritual quality. The resulting project fosters integration among body, spirit and city, transforming the building into a space of contemplation, healing and reconnection with nature. The use of shaded courtyards, natural materials, vegetation and controlled openings reinforces the biophilic ambience as a tool for comfort and spiritual well-being. Ultimately, the research reaffirms architecture as a practice of care and transformation, capable of re-establishing affective, symbolic and environmental bonds between human beings and space. It contributes to the contemporary debate on Brazilian religious architecture, with a particular focus on Spiritist spaces and institutions, proposing design guidelines that unite biophilic design, environmental comfort and spirituality as foundations for restorative architecture.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2140673 - GLAUCE LILIAN ALVES DE ALBUQUERQUE
Interna - 3549781 - BIANCA CARLA DANTAS DE ARAUJO
Interno - 2886900 - VERNER MAX LIGER DE MELLO MONTEIRO
Externa à Instituição - JULIANA VIÉGAS DE LIMA VALVERDE - UFRJ