ESPAÇOS DE TRANSIÇÃO E CONFORTO TÉRMICO

UMA REVISÃO SISTEMÁTICA DA LITERATURA

Abstract

Thermally comfortable school environments contribute with user learning and attention. Transition spaces provide environmental comfort through passive conditioning techniques, due to the fact that they act as barriers to direct solar radiation. In addition, they collaborate in user's receptivity to the environment and provide a space for social interaction and rest. However, the balconies need a more in-depth research, investigating the transition spaces participation in the maintenance of building thermal comfort. The main objective of this paper is to present a Systematic Literature Review. The systematic review allows organizing published works in the area of interest, observe knowledge gaps and scientific observations. In order to achieve the established objectives, a research on known databases using keywords such as "Transition Spaces" and "Thermal Comfort" has been done. The obtained results have been systematized in spreadsheets, and then analyzed and arranged graphically for a verification of the theoretical improvements on the transition spaces and their relation with thermal comfort. Analyzing the articles, it is clear the importance of the transition spaces for climate attenuation, besides the contribution for user's admission to the internal environment. Thus, it concludes that balconies need more in-depth research, since the subject has a few number of publications, although the transitional spaces are present intrinsically on built environments.