Entre o projetado e o construído: uma análise sobre modificações dos projetos arquitetônicos do campus central da UFRN durante o processo de execução (2008-2016)

Abstract

The architectural design and its guidelines are not always faithfully executed. Through observations based on practical field of the profession, it was noted that there are often changes in executive architectural designs during the stage of construction. Often, such changes cause many obstacles, such as: change of complementary projects for compliance with the new architecture, interrupting execution until the final resolution of the design, material waste, extra work of hand labor, execution contractual amendments, among others. Thus, we formulate the issue: Why are executive architectural designs often modified during execution stages, especially in the public sector, and what factors are responsible for these changes? As a possible answer to this question, a hypothesis has been formulated that technical order, financial and temporal factors, generally related to the management of the design process, explain the reasons why executive architectural designs are modified during construction. The central campus of UFRN, located in Natal, was chosen as spatial area cutout by the amount and diversity of new buildings, REUNI’s resources (Restructuring and Expansion of Federal Universities) have intensified the expansion of the physical infrastructure of the university since 2008. The time frame (2008-2016) was defined according to the types of worksites found in this period, elaborated and modified architectural designs in construction, excluding projects later modified (remodeling). During the analysis, developed based on the literature concerning the matter, on data provided in interviews with professionals involved in the development of architectural design and construction of buildings and also by comparing the executive architectural design with the as built project, it was possible to identify the main factors causing changes in architectural designs, occurred during construction, allowing confirmation of the research hypothesis.