Projeto de um conjunto residencial vertical com ênfase na eficiência energética com o uso do BIM

Abstract

This master's thesis comprises an architectural proposal for a vertical multifamily residential building with an emphasis on energy efficiency. The document is composed of two volumes: the first consists of the technical report, and the second contains the architectural design. The objective was to develop a vertical residential architectural project with a focus on the energy performance of the building envelope using Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, in association with the parameters of Inmetro’s Normative Instruction for residential buildings. The integration of regulatory parameters into Revit was envisioned, with automated verification tables developed to facilitate compliance checking. To achieve this, Eastman et al.'s (2009) framework for automated design verification was applied, and the RASE method was used to evaluate and translate rules from natural language into computational language. After creating the automated tables, the project was developed using Revit as the primary modeling software. Following multiple analysis iterations, a 27-story residential building was designed, with a constructed area of 8,807m² and 34 housing units. The application of verification tables was essential in defining the building's openings, volumetric composition, and full-empty relationships. Nevertheless, the normative instruction imposes constraints on the design process, such as the requirement that spaces must be predefined before compliance verification can take place. Additionally, the software employed has various limitations in its applied mathematical logic and requires maintaining a dedicated model that must be continuously updated as the project advances to ensure ongoing validation with the standard. This study reinforces both the potential and limitations of automated rule verification in architectural design.