PILOT STUDY OF THERMAL COMFORT IN SINGLE-FAMILY SOCIAL HOUSING IN THE CITY OF SANTA MARIA-RS, BASED ON QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS

Resumen

Thermal comfort analysis in buildings has long been a tool capable of measuring the user's relationship with the designed environment. Based on an adequate project implementation, considering typologies and orientation of openings and envelopes, one can offer several possibilities of thermal conditions for a single space. In order to provide the best comfort conditions, based on the user's perception, it is necessary to master the characteristics of the local bioclimatic zoning and the properties of building materials, as well as their respective behaviors during different temperatures. In view of the aspects raised, the present work brings the realization of a pilot study on the thermal comfort of the user. The present research seeks to analyze qualitatively the perception of residents of single-family social housing Minha Casa Minha Vida in the Dom Ivo Residence, in the city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. For the case study, forty interviews were conducted with residents between 18 and 84 years old, focusing on the sensations of thermal comfort during summer and winter in environments of prolonged stay as living room, kitchen and bedrooms. To validate the questionnaire model, it was submitted and later approved by the Ethics Committee of the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. As a basis for the research, the forty interviews were equally distributed among dwellings implanted in four different orientations, which are: Southeast, Northeast, Northwest, and Southwest. The comparison of results between each of the façade orientations made it possible to verify which directions of openings and envelopes present higher levels of discomfort due to cold and heat. In addition to investigating the user's perception of the thermal comfort of a building typology, this research seeks to contribute to future works on the same theme, essentially in the optimization of social housing projects.