Architectural project, Ecoposto, conservation unit, energetic efficiency, landscape.
This final paper for the Professional Master’s degree consists in the architectural project of environmental body IDEMA (Environment and Sustainable Development Institute)’s headquarters, in one of Rio Grande do Norte’s Nature’s Conservation Unit, in the Environmental Protection area Piquiri Una. This document consists of a technical report and an architectural project. It was motivated by the inefficiency and verified impacts in the model of architecture previously executed in existing Units, not corresponding to the sustainability and environment identity of the Institute, to which I am associated, professionally speaking. The tender focuses on low environmental impact construction, thermal and lighting comfort using passive bioclimatic strategies, energy efficiency, and the affiliation between architecture and landscape. The concept of the proposal is synergy, so that the various elements that make the local landscape, aligned with the architectural concept, work together with the purpose to reach efficiency through integration. In order to do that, the local characteristics were observed, as well as the climatic, social and landscape aspects; by means of the landscape view analysis methodology, and observed the constructive materials and public work guidelines, through the evaluation of the ambient built in the existing Ecoposto. The proposal aims to serve as a reference for the making of future architectural projects in a similar environmental preservation context, so that the body, as well as others of similar nature, increasingly incorporates sustainability in its agenda.