Study of the optimization of sunlight responsive shelters through parameterization

• Grant number: 13/22221-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2014
• End date: February 18, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Architecture and Urbanism Technology
• Principal Investigator: Maria Gabriela Caffarena Celani
• Grantee: Filipe Medéia de Campos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FEC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 14/07417-7 - Solar shading optimization through self-assembling structures, BE.EP.IC

Abstract

In the last decades the Technologies of CAD/CAM have developed, opening new possibilities for the production and teaching of architecture and urbanism. Tool as NURBS modeling, parameterization and prototyping were inserted into the architectonic production, and they are changing the form of thinking it and producing it. This research will explore the applications of those new technologies in architecture, focusing in the production of sunlight shelters and its optimization, searching for best thermic comfort and natural illumination. Besides offering to the user a well-being, those practices reduce the dependence of air conditioning machines, reducing the energetic consumption of the building.