RESIDENTS CLOSE THEIR MACEIO SEASHORE APARTMENT VERANDAHS: ADAPTATION TO A NEW LIFESTYLE OR NON-ADAPTATION TO THE CLIMATE?

Authors

  • Alexandre Márcio Toledo UFAL
  • Isabely Penina Cavalcanti da Costa UFAL
  • Michelle Carolinne Soares Bulhões UFAL

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4237/gtp.v5i2.131

Keywords:

verandah, natural ventilation, residents perception

Abstract

: This paper aims to verify the reason why the apartments verandahs are being closed, a tendency mainly observed at beach cities, and as well the new uses for the rooms, stuffs and typologies in the closing. The methodology applied consisted in photographic surveys and questionnaire applications with residents from nine apartment buildings in the city of Maceio who made up the verandah closure, focusing the handling of door and windows and on the perception of the natural ventilation on summertime and wintertime. It was claimed that the excessive ventilation and the unwished incidence of rain as the major environmental reasons to verandahs closure. It was verified that after the closure, the residents started to utilize it more frequently, keeping the original usage or modifying it. This paper contributes to understand the residents’ reasons, perceptions and choices about the verandahs, creating the conception of new spaces that more and more focus their needs, bringing up elements of projects to architects and project designers.

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Author Biographies

  • Alexandre Márcio Toledo, UFAL
    Grupo de Pesquisa em Projeto de Arquitetura Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo Universidade Federal de Alagoas
  • Isabely Penina Cavalcanti da Costa, UFAL
    Graduanda do curso de arquitetura e urbanismo
  • Michelle Carolinne Soares Bulhões, UFAL
    Arquiteta

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Published

2010-11-11

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2010): Post-occupation evaluation and design feedback

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TOLEDO, Alexandre Márcio; DA COSTA, Isabely Penina Cavalcanti; BULHÕES, Michelle Carolinne Soares. RESIDENTS CLOSE THEIR MACEIO SEASHORE APARTMENT VERANDAHS: ADAPTATION TO A NEW LIFESTYLE OR NON-ADAPTATION TO THE CLIMATE?. Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos (Design Management and Technology), São Carlos, v. 5, n. 2, p. p. 131–154, 2010. DOI: 10.4237/gtp.v5i2.131. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/gestaodeprojetos/article/view/50989.. Acesso em: 4 jan. 2026.