Research Structure

Research Projects

Multicriteria approach to sustainable building project

This project aims to develop and improve instruments to aid the design of the built environment, based on the principles of sustainability. The description and organization of the problem are considered, in addition to the development and improvement of decision support instruments, based on methodologies of a multicriteria approach. These instruments can be simplified tools (matrices, intelligent rules) or computational tools (simulators). To this end, emphasis will be placed on methodologies: ELECTRE (decision aid based on intelligent rules, obtained by computer simulation, and underweightin...

Museum Architecture Study

Coordinated by professor Cêça Guimaraens. Architectural inventory of buildings of museums and cultural centers in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Survey and analysis of technical and building adequacy of buildings of historical value used for cultural purposes. Research on the development of architecture in buildings and museum spaces.https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/projetoPesquisa/viewProjetoPesquisa.xhtml?popup=true&idProjeto=121726...

Narrativas latino-americanas: um processo de legitimação internacional a partir de exposições

Este projeto, coordenado pela profa. Ana Paula Polizzo, busca discutir o processo de visibilização e legitimação institucional da arquitetura contemporânea latino-americana nos centros hegemônicos da cultura mundial, buscando compreender assim, os diferentes discursos (sejam eles institucionais ou curatoriais) que moldaram o olhar estrangeiro em direção a essa produção arquitetônica. Procura, assim, abranger um campo amplo de possibilidades de pesquisa sobre a produção discursiva de arquitetos, intelectuais, críticos, historiadores atuantes junto a instituições de grande abrang...

Neurociência Aplicada à Arquitetura e Iluminação

O principal objetivo desta pesquisa, coordenada pela profa. Patrizia Di Trapano, é aplicar os conhecimentos da Neurociência aos projetos de Arquitetura e Iluminação. Como objetivos específicos, fundamentar a arquitetura multissensorial e analisar como a percepção do usuário em relação as características do ambiente influenciam na saúde e bem-estar. Ressaltar a importância da forma e da composição arquitetônica. Conceituar a iluminação com base nos princípios da iluminação integrativa, que envolve as necessidades de conforto visual, as questões biológicas (luz e o ciclo c...

O uso de infraestrutura verde e azul no manejo das águas pluviais urbanas como tecnologia para o desenvolvimento sustentável com vistas a cidades resilientes

Projeto coordenado pela profa. Dra. Aline Veról. A expansão das áreas urbanas e a pressão sobre o uso do solo alteraram as funções ecológicas e ecossistêmicas do ambiente. Estratégias de adaptação como o uso de infraestrutura verde e azul podem reduzir os efeitos negativos das ações antrópicas, além de proporcionarem benefícios para a saúde e a qualidade de vida da população. Essas estratégias podem destacar-se como alternativas mais sustentáveis, econômicas, multifuncionais e flexíveis em comparação com as soluções tradicionais. Este projeto de pesquisa visa pr...

PERFORMANCE | Dialogue between Building Geometry and Environmental Performance

This project coordinated by professor Aline Calazans, is an umbrella project and focuses on the investigation of form and its geometry in a constant and dialectical relationship with performance in the scope of Architecture and Urbanism. The research proposes to continue the work developed so far, specifically contributing to two new joint research fronts: (i) integration of descriptive geometry with parametric tools in a manner incorporated into teaching and applied to the field of architecture knowledge; (ii) investigation of environmental performance associated with the shape of polyhe...

Places of Memory of Health

Coordinated by professor Ana Amora. It is a broad project, in several stages and themes, which encompasses the studies and activities that we have been developing since before the doctorate, within the scope of activities at UFSC and, currently, together with UFRJ. Among the objectives: to see the continuity of the sanitary perspective in the ordering of cities between the years of 1920 and 1945; understand the academic environment of the ENBA architecture course, then the National Faculty of Architecture FNA and, finally, the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at UFRJ-FAU; to raise and know...

Post-Occupation Assessment and Place Quality: ANALYSIS AND RE-READING OF INSTRUMENTS FOR FIELD RESEARCH

The Research Groups Environment-Education (GAE) and Quality of Place and Landscape (ProLUGAR) have been developing teaching and research activities related to the applicability of concepts, methods and instruments that allow incorporating human-environment interactions produced during the observation experience in a Post-Occupancy Assessment. The conceptual and methodological approach that has characterized the researches of the Groups, proposes the re-reading and the re-signification of the classic techniques and instruments of an APO, expanding the concept and the perception of the quality o...

Processos Construtivos em Territórios Populares

Este projeto de pesquisa concentra-se em dois objetivos distintos: (1) o reconhecimento dos saberes construtivos em territórios populares: como são tomadas as decisões construtivas – escolha dos materiais e técnicas construtivas, bem como o planejamento e a gestão da obra; e (2) produção de tecnologias construtivas alternativas, com vantagens econômicas e ecológicas, que possam ser aplicadas nestes territórios. O objetivo da primeira frente de pesquisa é a compreensão detalhada de como acontece o processo construtivo das casas em territórios populares, particularmente no conjunt...

Project, Planning and Landscape

The research aims to study how social representations continually construct and transform landscapes, in particular: urban planning and design; the design and construction of large architectural objects and the design and construction of works of art. Specifically, it is dedicated to the study of: the construction of landscape through discourse and form (construction of ideals and imagery); planning as a cultural idealization and as a justification for investment vectors; informal manifestations as opposed to formal planning and teaching as a way of constructing thinking about urban and landsc...

Soundscape, memory and culture

The research is developed in the Graduate Program in Architecture (PROARQ) of the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (FAUUFRJ) within the scope of the Project and Environmental Representation (proAMB) CNPq Group. It addresses the cultural relations that are established between the visible built landscape and the invisible soundscape of cities, aiming to demonstrate the importance of sounds in the qualification and identification of urban spaces and in the construction of a collective memory. It is dedicated to the development of the creation of new ...

Subjective and cultural dimension of ambiances: ethnopopographic tools in architecture and urbanism

Coordinated by the professors Ethel Pinheiro and Cristiane Rose Duarte. The study of Ambiances, seen as man-environment-culture interaction, is extremely important for the democratization of cities, since it contributes to the density of the analysis of urban scenarios and emphasizes the role of cultural practices in cities. Based on the assumption of valuing micro and small scales of living and urban centralities, this research seeks to understand the importance of sensitive experiences in the construction of citizens' feelings and meanings of belonging. Hand-to-hand in the city, being with t...

Sustainability and Innovation in Materials and Construction Systems for the Building Project

This multidisciplinary project, coordinated by Professor Marcos Silvoso, aims to add skills to promote the sustainable development of building materials and construction systems for building design. It also seeks to assess the performance of residential buildings, with reference to NBR 15575, in aspects related to sustainability, environmental comfort, structural performance, useful life and its relationship with the building design and production process. An extremely important industry for the country, civil construction is currently responsible for a large part of the consumption of raw mat...

Sustainability and project

Coordinated by professor Virginia Vasconcellos. The "Project and Sustainability Research" allows the sharing of character production: [1] Scientific (theoretical-conceptual), welcoming students from [1] Academic Master and Doctorate and [2] Practical, attending students of Professional Master. In its scientific aspect [1], it aims to: develop studies that raise, analyze, understand, interpret, critically evaluate concepts, attributes, and situations of use, occupation, preservation, requalification, rehabilitation, and reintegration of cultural heritage. Under this goal, it provides for studie...

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) e a New Urban Agenda (NUA): equity, urban resilience and socio-environmental sustainability (CAPES PRINT)

This research project, coordinated by professor Vera Tângari aims to meet the goals defined by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the New Urban Agenda (NUA) by CAPES PRINT, with a focus on criticism and project development. The activities to be developed must defend the improvement of quality of life, public education and health, physical security, well-being, creativity, and the public sphere in cities. In this context, the research, extension, and design practice activities that meet the guidelines and include solutions to perceived problems in an inclusive manner are understood as...

The education of the gaze: apprehension of the geometric attributes of the shape of places

The research introduces the education of the gaze as a strategy for the understanding of architectural forms characterizing the volumetry of the physical space (architectural, urban and landscape), through polyhedra and their relationships. The investigation of the form, in this sense, interacts with the knowledge produced by other research groups that work in PROARQ. The objective of this project is to produce animations, manipulable three-dimensional visualizations, models and to gather in a publication, of a didactic nature, the set of theoretical and methodological references to be applied...

The garden-form and landscape architecture: socio-spatial practices and cultural hybridities

The garden shape expresses ideas and plays different roles in the landscape. It mixes, associates and hybridizes the environment, culture and art. It materializes in space through objects and actions that align themselves through uses, functions, symbols of all kinds, thus revealing the idea of ​​place. The garden-form is distinguished when nature is previously framed, and it designs scenarios of specific scales, different ambiences and different styles that, in addition to creating places, leave marks that penetrate, one by one, in the different layers of history. The material and immater...

The image of Heritage in Architecture magazines

Studies of the image of cultural heritage produced and promoted through the set of photographs they document illustrate matters of informative, theoretical, practical and critical content published in the main architectural magazines published in Brazil in the 20th century.To acess the research at Sucupira click HERE...

The importance of cultural spaces for the requalification of urban centers

Its research of concepts and critical content related to the renovation of historic centers from the requalification of museums and cultural center buildings.To access the research at Sucupira click HERE...

Urban Design Code

The research coordinated by Professor Maria Lucia Pecly, aims to understand how the process of "Urban Design Code" in England can be used as a tool in the construction of quality parameters for teaching social housing projects in Brazil. The approach adopted by design coding seeks to establish principles of urban design quality with an emphasis on the connection between the design process, management and governance of the project and the final product built.The process of coding urban design (Urban Design Code) in the United Kingdom: Process + ProductThe Urban Design Code was created in E...

Vegetation in environmental comfort

Coordinated by professor Virginia Vasconcelos. The project aims to rescue the role of vegetation as an element that induces quality and environmental sustainability, based on the identification of the main characteristics of plant species and their relationship with the comfort of the built environment. Part of the analysis of the performance of tree species with different canopy densities in reducing direct solar radiation and air temperature, establishing interactions with the built environment and with climatic variables, through physical surveys and field experiments.https://sucupira.capes...