Research Structure

Research Projects

Evaluation of Housing projects in Brazil

Coordinated by professor Mauro Santos. It aims at the determination of quality indicators and the evaluation of innovative projects and programs of social interest in Brazil, combining concerns for quantity and environmental and architectural quality of social interest in Brazil, through the methodology of the Post-Occupation Assessment.https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/projetoPesquisa/viewProjetoPesquisa.jsf?popup=true&idProjeto=121702...

From school's space to the educational territory: The place of architecture in the discussion between the school of integral education and the city of Rio de Janeiro

Coordinated by professor Gisele Azevedo. This project, linked to the Culture, Landscape, and Built Environment research line of the Graduate Program in Architecture PROARQ-FAU / UFRJ, gives continuity and seeks to intertwine the knowledge produced by the research groups Environment-Education (GAE), Quality of Place and Landscape (ProLUGAR) and System of Open Spaces in Rio de Janeiro (SEL-RJ), related reflection on the quality of the place and the landscape of educational environments. Based on the joint application of the concepts, methods and research instruments used by the three groups...

Health Spaces Assessment

Coordinated by professor Mauro Santos. This research aims to develop the concept of rationality, environmental comfort and energy efficiency in healthcare space solutions. The evaluation is limited to the functional aspect through the analysis of the program, dimensioning and flexibility of the spaces, and the changes made during the period of use. The selected cases represent innovative projects. Among the research results, the New University Hospital Project - UFRJ stands out, under development within the Group. Project developed by the research group Espaço -Saúde of the Graduate Pro...

Historiography of architecture and architectural heritage

Coordinated by professor Gustavo Peixoto. Theoretical study of the writing of the history of architecture and the city: Critical reading and literary analysis of historiographic narratives (currents, trends, antagonisms); typology of historical narratives (linear narratives; non-linear narratives; fragmentary narratives); configurations of time representation in the narrative; analysis of the unfolding of the epistemology of history about the evolution of architectural aesthetics; the history of architecture as a study of discontinuities (ruptures, manifests, vanguards); the history of archite...

If this Plaza were mine: structuring of the concept of Spatial Empathy for the analysis of Use of Public Space (accomplished)

Coordinated by professors Ethel Pinheiro and Cristiane Rose Duarte, this research use of the concept of "spatial empathy" to understand the urban space is a perspective taken as a considerable impact potential, especially when thinking about contemporary premises for the use of public space. Researching on the subject for four years now, the LASC Research Group (Laboratory Architecture, Subjectivity and Culture) seeks to treat the key concept 'spatial empathy' as an emblem in an attempt to understand urban environments, spaces in which social relations and identity are...

Landscape architecture: morphological and environmental aspects

This project is linked to the Culture, Landscape, and Built Environment research lines and the PROARQ-FAU / UFRJ Revitalization and Restoration Project and seeks to consolidate the knowledge produced by the SEL-RJ group - Research Group on Open Space Systems in Rio de Janeiro, linked to the CNPq Group - Quality of Place and Landscape. It aims to research the interfaces between the disciplinary fields that influence the landscape configuration, with emphasis on its morphological and environmental structure. It is applied to the study of the processes that explain the morphology of the city...

Master Plan UFRJ 2030 - GDI - Urban and Architectural Guidelines and Parameters

Discussion of relevant topics for the elaboration of the UFRJ Master Plan 2021-2030. According to Consuni's Resolution No. 10, 2008, it is a “basic instrument to guide the development of the University in the physical-territorial and patrimonial planes, order its expansion and plan the destination and use of its resources. in spaces and installations ”. This Master Plan will cover the period 2021-2030.https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/projetoPesquisa/viewProjetoPesquisa.xhtml?popup=true&idProjeto=625837...

[MPPP] City, Alterity and Ambiances: methodological interlocutions in the field of studies on material and immaterial heritage through the bias of experiential research

Analysis of the city and its cultural heritage through an experiential exploration approach, interwoven in the field of applied social sciences, with an emphasis on the concepts of territory, territoriality (social and cultural dimensions of space), personal space, culture, and places of memory. The research aims to raise a project process / methodological dynamic that seeks recognition of conceptual structures for the perception and analysis of private and public spaces, the cultural heritage of cities, and the role of ambiances as an element of imagery composition of places. ...

[MPPP] Digital modeling techniques applied to Architectural Heritage

This project, coordinated by professor Jorge Astorga from MPPP, converges to a study on the systems and techniques of modeling and understanding the built heritage in Architecture....

[MPPP] Documentation, inventories and information systems for the preservation of the heritage built in Brazil

Coordinated by professor Claudia Nobrega. The project proposes the elaboration of a methodology for specific research procedures and techniques applied to the collection of data on the heritage built in Brazil, with an emphasis on research on buildings and historic sites in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Among the objectives of this research project, the following stand out: collecting and organizing data obtained from primary and secondary sources on the properties studied; contribute to the permanent updating of the History of Architecture in Brazil: provide data for projects and works for the ...

[MPPP] Impacts of urban legislation on the landscape and built environments in the city of Rio de Janeiro

The present project is a development of the researches carried out since 2004 on the influence of Urban Legislation in the transformation of the landscape in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The method used by the present project is based on the analysis criteria developed in the Master's and Doctorate works completed in 2010 and 2014 respectively and is linked to research by the Rio de Janeiro Free Spaces System Group (SEL / RJ) coordinated by Professor Dra. Vera Regina Tângari.The expansion of large real estate corporations in the 2000s culminated in an increase in interest in large residential ...

[MPPP] Observatory of Urban Conservation

The research seeks to monitor and evaluate urban conservation initiatives, as well as their respective impacts on urban, building, economic and social contexts in Brazilian cities where it is applied. It uses the city of Rio de Janeiro as a reference and the results obtained in more than thirty areas protected by the city hall, through the urban instrument called Area of ​​Protection of the Cultural Environment (APAC), used in the last thirty years for the specific purpose of urban conservation. The research aims to contribute to new subsidies for the current stage of debates on the theme,...

[MPPP] Plan for the Preventive Conservation of Built Heritage

The research aims to establish theoretical and methodological support for the implementation of preventive conservation plans for the built heritage, based on the attribution of values ​​and the state of conservation; to contribute to the improvement of projects, contracting and execution of interventions for architectural preservation, combining the needs of conservation of the work for the future with the needs of its enjoyment and functioning in the present....

[MPPP] Revitalization and Restoration Project

Coordinated by Professor Rosina Trevisan. Development of projects to revitalize and restore the built heritage and historic areas with the theoretical basis and scientific methodology, aiming at the preservation of the heritage. Study and use of the method, techniques, and tools used in the process of generating a building or set of buildings, based on graphic hardware and software technology, applied to projects for the preservation, revitalization, or restoration of buildings and urban environments of heritage cultural heritage. Study of the application of new conservation and restoration te...

[MPPP] The goods integrated in the cultural architectural heritage in the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro

Coordinated by professor Claudia Nobrega. The goods called "integrated" as the term itself suggests are those linked to the built surface - internal or external. They establish relationships with the architectural composition of dimensions, proportions, location and treatment. This category includes tiles, stained glass, portals, carvings, altarpieces, ceilings, murals and other goods. They must not be removed because they radically alter the internal space and shape, breaking with the unity of the architectural work. The main objective of this research project is to provide subsidies for acti...

[MPPP] The integration of acoustic discipline with architectural projects: teaching and professional practice

Coordinated by professor Maria Julia Santos, the objective of the research is to verify how the fundamentals of architectural acoustics are integrated into the design process. It also seeks to investigate how the content offered in the various schools in the city of Rio suits the needs of future professionals and whether academic training provides an improvement in the acoustic quality of projects....

Multicriteria approach to sustainable building project

Coordinated by professor Leopoldo Bastos and prof. Aline Calazans. 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 in...

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...

PERFORMANCE | Dialogue between Building Geometry and Environmental Performance (Grupo Educação do Olhar)

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...