The importance of the correct use of passive strategies to the hot and humid climate: The case of teaching Environmental Comfort in the Course of Architecture and Urbanism at UNIFAP

Abstract

Making architectonic or urbanistic projects adequate to the climatic conditions is the first step that every designer should take into consideration. Often, architectural patterns are observed in various climatic contexts, disregarding the characteristics of the region, finding the same form, materials, and orientation at different latitudes in Brazil. Therefore, the objective of the present investigation, is to bring to discussion what several authors approach about recommendations for the hot and humid climate and to emphasize, that architecture must play the fundamental role of protection, or filter of the environmental elements that affect the well-being of individuals. The main references mentioned are discussions of authors who are present in the teaching references of the subject Environmental Comfort of the Architecture and Urbanism Course of the Federal University of Amapá (UNIFAP) and the production of sketches and authorial schemes carried out by the Habitar Amazônia Research Group in the development of undergraduate research and publications. With this, it seeks to bring the survey of the main passive strategies to the hot and humid climate, addressing constraints such as ventilation, shade, natural lighting, surroundings, orientation and volumetry, walls and roofs, and materials, so that students can have a database in a didactic way in project design.