THE ROLE OF THE ARCHITECT IN THE DESIGN OF SPACES IN HOUSING UNITS WITH THERMAL AND ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE IN THE STANDARDS OF ABNT NBR 15.575:2013

Abstract

ABNT NBR 15575 (2013) is a Brazilian technical standard for residential type buildings, in which mandatory minimum requirements are established that must be met in order to promote the performance of buildings. Architects and urban planners, as actors in the project conception, must foresee and manage decisions that need to be established, some of them still in the initial studies, so that all the requirements of this standard are fully met. In this context, this work aims to discuss the role of the architect and urban planner in the application of the performance standard in project design. For the present work, issues relevant to the role of the architect and urban planner in the design process were studied, namely: thermal and acoustic performance. From these, all requirements were analyzed, their applications in the design stage, as well as the methodologies needed to apply the parameters. As a form of practical assessment, three projects were discussed and evaluated, and the difficulties and interventions during the interpretation and application of the performance standard were raised. After the analyzes carried out, the results indicated the existence of a multidisciplinary interdependence that requires the cooperation of teams from different scientific areas in the application of performance parameters.