Avaliação das condições de conforto térmico, lumínico e acústico no ambiente escolar, no período de inverno: o Caso do Câmpus Pelotas Visconde da Graça.

Abstract

Comfort at the school environment is an essential for the whole development of the teaching and learning process. In this context, we evaluated thermal, lighting and acoustic comfort at the Pelotas Visconde da Graça Campus’ classrooms, in order to establish parameters and recommendations of passive architecture strategies for this institution’s future buildings that could offer better environmental conditions as well as energy efficiency. Classrooms that are located in a 1923’s building and a 2010’s building were chosen for the evaluation. The methodology combined evaluations of the users’ answers on their perceptions about environmental conditions during wintertime and assessments of the physical varieties. Results were compared with the Brazilian normative data. In addition, the users’ answers were crossed with the measures obtained through the assessments. We found that, regarding thermal comfort, classrooms located at the 1923’s building presented higher temperatures than those at the 2010’s one. Users also perceived this condition. Concerning lighting comfort, classrooms at the 2010’s building had a better performance, due to characteristics of their windows, which was also noticed by the users. About acoustic comfort, although the 1923’s building had more acoustic insulation, the users considered the 2010’s building better. From these results, a series of design guidelines is listed in this work, aiming the physical development of the institution, which is object of this research.