Banca de DEFESA: Ayana Dantas de Medeiros

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Ayana Dantas de Medeiros
DATE: 19/03/2026
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Auditório Jayme Golubov, subsolo da FAU/UnB, ICC-Norte
TITLE:

The Residential Architecture of Severiano Mário Porto: Design Patterns and Environmental Performance

KEY WORDS:

Project analysis; Amazon region; Thermal comfort; Visual comfort.

PAGES: 175
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Arquitetura e Urbanismo
SUMMARY:

The research investigates the residential architecture of Severiano Mário Porto, widely recognized for the strong integration of technique, culture, and the environment in the Brazilian Amazon. Grounded in the understanding that architectural design must simultaneously respond to social, cultural, and environmental constraints, the study argues that Severiano’s work constitutes an exemplary case of architecture adapted to the region’s hot and humid climate, combining vernacular strategies with modern solutions. The research seeks to address an existing gap by formulating four central questions: how Severiano designed housing projects; which elements recur as design patterns; how these patterns reconcile natural ventilation and daylighting with solar protection; and what environmental performance these solutions achieve. The study is based on the hypothesis that consistent design patterns exist in Severiano’s residential architecture, developed and refined throughout his career, resulting in high environmental performance and offering guidance for contemporary architectural practice in humid tropical climates.The methodological approach includes documentary research, preliminary analysis, definition of case studies, and computational simulations. A total of 91 distinct single-family housing typologies were identified, whose predominant characteristics include east–west orientation of the main façades, external masonry walls, and three main roof typologies (ceramic tiles with wooden ceilings in living spaces and concrete slabs in bedrooms, and fiber-cement tiles with wooden ceilings). The percentages of openings for ventilation (PV) and for daylighting (PT) vary, with a predominance of PV > PT in living rooms and the opposite relationship in bedrooms, indicating a greater emphasis on natural lighting in living spaces. The results indicate that the relationship between PV and PT is intrinsically linked to environmental performance in residential buildings within the climatic context of northern Brazil, revealing conflicts between the requirements for natural lighting and ventilation. By examining in depth examples of a well-established architectural body of work, this study highlights the richness of design solutions that emerge from the skillful combination of different envelope elements, resulting in projects that demonstrate expressive and effective responses to local climatic conditions.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1662239 - CLAUDIA NAVES DAVID AMORIM
Externo à Instituição - HUGO MASSAKI SEGAWA - USP
Interna - 1438937 - JOARA CRONEMBERGER RIBEIRO SILVA
Externa ao Programa - 1144243 - JULIANA ANDRADE BORGES DE SOUSA - nullExterno à Instituição - MARCOS PAULO CERETO - UFAM