The goal of this thesis project is to gain a greater understanding of how architects are being trained. The project is a renovation and addition to a building serving as a school of architecture. The design of the school reflects the architectural educational process. "It is not enough to teach a man a specialty. Through it he may become a kind of useful machine but not a harmonious developed personality. It is essential that the student acquire an understanding of and a lively feeling of values. He must acquire a sense of the beautiful and the morally good. Otherwise he - with his specialized knowledge - more closely resembles a well-trained dog than a harmoniously developed person. He must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings in order to acquire a proper relationship to individual fellow man and the community." Albert Einstein from the New York Times, 10/5/52. / Master of Architecture

Architectural decision making, in terms of a formal design methodology, must be based on a sincere understanding and sympathetic employment of architectural building materials. These materials, each with their own inherent tectonics, come together to formulate a network of inter-dependent relationships categorized as material accommodation. Material accommodation consists of three specific areas. First, as indicators of formal issues, secondly, they will communicate structural awareness, and finally from a syntactic dimension. / Master of Architecture

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:18:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Juliana Herlemann.pdf: 6733221 bytes, checksum: ff684fe49b74e43b179003e1062e761d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-09-24 / Provide users good physical conditions in educational institutions is essential for the proper development of teaching and learning. This work deals with the verification in-loco of the environmental comfort of classrooms in two buildings with different architectural and construction techniques, that are part of the structure of the Federal University of Goiás. So the research aimed at exploring these buildings in order to identify the peculiarities of its thermal, acoustic and light performance which are being influenced by the technologies adopted and the physical conformation of the same. The technical data collected were analyzed by type of comfort. In lighting comfort, measurements were carried out near the solstices and equinoxes and the data collected were analyzed by means of ambient illuminance, uniformity coefficient and contribution of artificial light. The thermal comfort data collected were temperature and relative humidity for a period of approximately 11 months, which were assessed using the concept of comfort zone, degree-hours analysis and absolute maximum and minimum values. The acoustic measurements collected the sound pressure levels and occurred over a day of daily activities in both buildings. It was noted that there is an influence of the architectural elements of environmental comfort in buildings. Among other factors, one that can be highlighted is that despite having similar solar orientation, which is a comfort condition, the results of the environmental performance of each of the buildings were quite different. Parallel to these technical assessments were also done a periodic application of questionnaires to the users of the classroom, one per season, which sought to characterize the perception of these in relation to each of the types of comfort. Finally, a correlation was established between the technical data collected and perceptive. In most of cases, the opinions expressed by users were not consistent with the results evaluated by measurement techniques, thus demonstrating a difference between the comfort zone adopted and the actual user satisfaction of the buildings. / Proporcionar aos usuários boas condições físicas nas instituições educacionais é determinante para o adequado desenvolvimento das atividades de ensino e aprendizado. Este trabalho trata da avaliação in loco do conforto ambiental de salas de aula de duas edificações com arquitetura e técnicas construtivas diferentes, que compõe a estrutura da Universidade Federal de Goiás. Desta maneira, a pesquisa objetiva explorar estas edificações buscando identificar, em cada uma delas, peculiaridades de seu desempenho térmico, acústico e lumínico, que estejam sendo influenciadas pelas tecnologias adotadas e pela conformação física das mesmas. Os dados técnicos levantados foram avaliados por tipologia de conforto. No conforto lumínico, realizaram-se medições próximas aos solstícios e equinócios e os dados coletados foram analisados pelas iluminâncias médias dos ambientes, coeficiente de uniformidade e contribuição da luz artificial. Os dados de conforto térmico coletados foram: temperatura e umidade relativa, por um período de aproximadamente 11 meses, os quais foram avaliados por meio do conceito de zona de conforto, análise graus-hora e valores máximos e mínimos absolutos. As medições acústicas coletaram os níveis de pressão sonora e ocorreram ao longo de um dia de atividades cotidianas, em ambas as edificações. Notou-se, que há uma influência dos elementos arquitetônicos no conforto ambiental das edificações. Entre outros fatores, um que pode ser destacado é que, apesar de possuírem orientação solar similar, que é um aspecto condicionante de conforto, os resultados do desempenho ambiental, de cada um dos edifícios, foram bastante diferenciados. Paralela a estas avaliações técnicas, foi também realizada uma aplicação periódica de questionários aos usuários das salas estudadas, sendo uma por estação do ano, que buscou caracterizar a percepção destes, em relação a cada uma das tipologias de conforto. Finalmente, foi estabelecida uma correlação entre os dados técnicos levantados e os perceptivos. Em parte dos casos, as opiniões expressadas pelos usuários não foram condizentes com os resultados avaliados por meio das medições técnicas, demonstrando assim uma divergência entre a zona de conforto adotada e a real satisfação dos usuários das edificações.

The thesis consists of two parts: The introduction states a rationale for the making of Architecture by defining its final and subsidiary goals and identifying the importance of ‘judgement’ and the concept of ‘order’ as operational means. The project attempts to apply the theory on three different scales: object, building and urban. This part of the book is structure around the theme of ‘meetings’, the enjoyment of two entities coming together and in various ways interacting and redefining each other architecturally. / Master of Architecture

Architecture has meaning and purpose when it is seen not as something that firmly must exist, but as the possibilities that a situation creates. I have not yet found that which is concretely architecture, but I can say that which is concretely architecture, but I can say that which could exist as beauty in this world. The design of everyday objects becomes architecture to me, whether it be of a building, a piece of jewelry, or a piece of pottery. My undergraduate thesis was a study of the interaction of a curved wall and a straight wall, as autonomous elements. I proposed not only the spacial design but also how it is affected and changed by the site; namely the repetition and orientation. In my graduate work, I undertook an investigation of the connection between old and new. My thesis suggests, in the form of three schemes or plans, what that connection could be and how it creates and affects architecture. / Master of Architecture