MESA D’ÁGUA COMO FERRAMENTA PARA A SIMULAÇÃO DO DESLOCAMENTO DE AEROSSÓIS EM AMBIENTES INTERNOS

Abstract

This work results of part of the discussions held within the scope of the Special Topics - Air Ventilation and Health discipline, offered by the Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism of the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo, in 2020, at which aspects correlated to air health issues in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic were addressed. Based on this approach, the text addresses how the teaching of architecture, and more specifically of design, incorporates the themes of natural ventilation and healthy air, and how the water table can become a tool capable of facilitating the understanding of the subject . Assessing the literature review on the ways in which some diseases are transmitted, in particular the SARS epidemic that occurred in China and other Asian countries between 2002 and 2004, was considered three aspects of ventilation that act to mitigate airway contagion through pathogens , which were used to carry out tests on the water table, seeking strategies for the teaching-learning process about the impacts on ambient air renewal, ventilation direction and wind flow. Finally, the article presents alternatives for the visualization of tests through dyes that simulate the dissipation of pathogens in indoor environments.