Vivenda dos pinheiros: anteprojeto de um hotel-escola para Natal-RN

Abstract

The city Natal is considered as great tourist hub in the state of Rio Grande do Norte with predominance of sunny days the whole year and a large coast. So, it’s necessary that the city have a broad infrastructure that the city has an ample infrastructure to receive the tourists and to qualify the professionals who must attend with warmth and hospitality the visitors. Therefore, this paper proposes the draft of a hotel-school with focus on bioclimatic architecture to meet the lodging and hotel teaching demands in Natal. This project, inserted in knowledge areas of architectural design and environmental comfort, aims to analyze the implications of the coexistence of teaching and hosting uses in the same building while uses bioclimatic strategies e propose thermal comfort passive strategies that allow to reduce the consumption of electrical energy in the architectural project. Therefore, the draft’s development is based on bibliographical research and complemented with case studies. From the application of these methods it is possible to determine that a hotel-school has differentiated program needs from the other hotels and what are the consequences of this for architecture. This way, after knowing the enterprise typology particularities, obtains the development of the architectural draft in which environmental comfort concepts were applied, proposing quality rooms for the users, which allows the long stay without the need for a high consumption of electric energy.