Diretrizes para o emprego da Arquitetura bioclimática em edificações residenciais de São Luís

Abstract

The bioclimatic architecture leads to a number of benefits which may be cited as energy saving and conservation of natural resources, we can observe that the world is now returning to man, all the negative charge of destruction that has been generated while, in all the media run stories about floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, disasters, demonstrating the violent revolt of nature because of all the accumulated suffocation, and only at those times it appears that the quest for the preservation of the environment. Having bioclimatic architecture in a way to contribute to the preservation of the natural environment and provide users with better housing conditions, the paper intends to present basic concepts that can be incorporated into the process early architectural design allowing optimization of the project, from its surroundings climate and the needs of its future occupants, with the aim of studying the guidelines bioclimatic construction for residential buildings included in humid-tropical climate, specifically the city of São Luís do Maranhão.