Metodologia para análise do desempenho térmico de edificações residenciais em regiões de clima quente úmido: exemplos da Arquitetura Moderna de Pernambuco

One of the important characteristics that we can find in modern architecture in Pernambuco is the way that the architects due with the climate conditions. There we can find a whole generation of architects who embraced the new way of making architecture and had also the preoccupation to offer thermal comfort not trusting only in the artificial ways. The present work wants to present a methodology to analyze the thermal performance in dwellings through the identification of elements existent in a project that reflects a conscience with climate conditions specially regards to solar radiation control and the existence of air movement inside building. In fact, those are one of the important strategies for reaching thermal comfort in natural way in warm humid climates. The results of the analyzes will be organized in a graphical way so one can be able to identify which were the characteristics used with more priority in the architectural project. The results will classify the buildings according to the thermal performance. To make a study case, three high store buildings were chosen in the city of Recife: Acaiaca, Vila Mariana e Alameda Casa Forte, designed by the following architects: Delfim Amorim, Wandenkolk Tinoco e Carlos Fernando. They represent a chronologic example of modern architecture in Recife. Comparative studies

were made no to evaluate thermal performance for different period of the year. The aspects analyzed were solar radiation control and the existence of air movement inside building. The methodology presented in this work makes an important approach to the effort to adequate the principles of modern architecture to warm humid climates taking as an example high store buildings however it is possible to adequate for other buildings typologies and also to introduce new parameters for the evaluation.