Proposta arquitetônica de um edifício vertical habitacional considerando o gerenciamento de riscos

Abstract

Project management is an important means to help professionals in the civil construction area in planning their activities and, thus, succeed in their undertakings. One of the sectors of management that can contribute to the design process, including the architectural one, would be risk management, since the good use of its guidelines helps identifying as well as minimizing the effects of negative unforeseen events on the project. However, this is a branch of management that is still not extensively widespread in the construction industry, especially in the context of architectural projects. The lack of a significant amount of studies to address the most outstanding risks during the conception of any architectural design leads designers to rely almost exclusively on their intuition. As a result of this shortage of standards, changes in delivery schedules together with budgeting mishaps are usual outcomes. In this context, the present paper aims to help disseminating knowledge in regards to this particular subject and as a matter of fact established a case study of a high-rise apartment building and the application of risk management techniques and tools throughout its design process. Therefore, the main goal of this report is to develop the architectural design of a high-rise apartment building, adopting design decisions in response to technical risks of greater impact to the project. To develop this project some steps were carried out: theoretical-conceptual deepening on high-rise housing and project management; analysis of design-references studies that served as a basis for the architectural design; application of risk management strategies in the design of a high-rise apartment building; investigation of design constraints such as physical-environmental and by-law aspects. While apllying risk management processes and tools, it was possible to identify the three main negative impacts to the project: budget overrun, incorrect selection of materials, and lack of interaction with local building methods. As a response, we applied building rationalization, optimization of materials through research in the local market, and the application of regional building elements, promoting their appreciation. The result is a ten-storey high-rise apartment building design, which features as remarkable attributes the modular coordination of constructive elements in addition to the use of local materials on its facades. It is believed that the final result of this work achieved the stipulated goals and contributed to the maturation of the theme, especially when it comes specifically to architectural projects.