CONTRIBUIÇÃO DAS FACHADAS CINÉTICAS COM TECNOLOGIA RESPONSIVA PARA A LUZ NATURAL EM QUARTOS DE INTERNAÇÃO

Abstract

One of the main architectural strategies that contribute to the healing process of patients in hospital inpatient rooms is the use of daylight. However, this type of environment must have control systems, as they require special lighting conditions, according to RDC No. 50, which deals with the Technical Regulation for planning, programming, elaboration and evaluation of physical projects of Health Care Facilities (HCF) in Brazil. It is known that kinetic facades with responsive technology can control the incidence of natural light inside corporate buildings, however, no hospital building was identified with this type of technology, in research conducted in Brazil and in the international context. This study aims to understand whether the specimens of kinetic facades with responsive technology presented in this study can contribute to the supply, control of natural light and the visibility of the exterior of a quarter of hospitalization in the territory of tropical climate as the city of Rio de Janeiro. For this, the types of protection raised in this article were modeled with approximate and simulated dimensions open and partially closed on the façade of an inpatient room. The results identified that all simulated facades allowed the incidence of natural light inside, when the kinetic elements are fully open, however, not all allow visualization of the external space and neither the shading only in the hospital bed. In the case study it was possible to conclude that most of the models studied, kinetic facades with responsive technology could be applied in hospitalization sectors favoring the incidence of daylight of the rooms and allowing visibility of the external area of the environment. However, the geometric shapes of this type of facades can interfere in the positioning of shadows, the intensity of light and the visibility of the exterior can be compromised depending on the kinematics and materials used.