Building requalification: architectural design for UFRN’s Centro de Convivência Djalma Marinho requalification focusing on building envelope energy efficiency
Building Requalification, Communal Center, Energy Efficiency and Bioclimatic Strategies.
This study addresses building requalification focusing on the envelope’s energy efficiency. The work proposes a requalification for Centro de Convivência Djalma Marinho’s building, located in UFRN’s main campus in Natal/RN, through the following guidelines and methodologies: literature review, post-occupancy evaluation of a built environment, thermal comfort analysis in the original building and a new architectural programming proposal for the space. By applying passive bioclimatic strategies, as recommended for Brazilian Bioclimatic Zone 08, the intention is reducing heat transfer from the external environment to the internal environment, improving thermal comfort for users and reducing energy consumption. The presented actions aim an enhancement of the building envelope’s energy and thermal performances, to obtain the Etiqueta Nacional de Eficiência Energética da Edificação (PROCEL), rationalize materials and resources, and offer the academic community a space with better environmental quality. As a hypothesis, it is believed that in preliminary design stages, by the moment of its conception and planning, decision-making considerably impacts the building’s environmental performance and energy consumption.