Banca de DEFESA: JOSE IDALÉCIO SATURNINO JÚNIOR

SAND: PRELIMINARY PROJECT OF A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY CENTER IN GUARAPES - NATAL/RN.

Sand Architecture; Architectural project; Sustainability, Bioclimatic strategies

This professional master's thesis consists of an architectural project of a Community Center, Sustainable, in the Guarapes neighborhood, west administrative region of Natal/RN, with an emphasis on constructive alternatives with low environmental impact, aligned with bioclimatic strategies and a technical report. Over recent years, the search for new constructive systems has been constant, since natural resources are finite. What is intended to be presented in this work is the viability of using an ancestral, sustainable and little explored constructive system. Sand architecture emerges as a viable solution for the advancement of environmental degradation, since this constructive system has numerous advantages in terms of its use. This work intends to present the technique of architecture and construction with Sand as a viable solution with low environmental impact. As the Guarapes neighborhood does not have strategic community equipment, sought to develop a proposal of a Community Center using Sand architecture as an incentive and knowledge of this sustainable construction system. For the development of the proposal, a theoretical-conceptual deepening on the theme was carried out, through a bibliographical review and studies of design references that guided the development of the project, in the definition of the concept, party and architectural programming. Moreover, the subjects taken during the Program were essential to the design process, which resulted in a proposal that was functional, sustainable and with an architectural quality at the level of the preliminary design.