Planejamento físico e sustentabilidade em universidades públicas: apontamentos das experiências de sustentabilidade do ambiente construído no campus da Pampulha da UFMG

Abstract

The built environment is essential for human activities. Most of the environmental impacts come from construction. The search for sustainable development, a practice that is increasingly necessary and present in society, imposes new paradigms and requirements for architectural projects. University campuses are large and important urban facilities for the development of cities and society as a whole. University buildings, especially in the context of the notoriety of sustainable buildings, should offer optimized, flexible, high quality and low consumption spaces to accommodate their various uses. There is a planning deficit in Brazil that prevents public universities from moving towards the sustainability of the built environment. However, even with this problem, institutions as the UFMG strive to follow design spaces state of the art and complying with the requirements of sustainability. This work aims evaluate the sustainability experiences of the environment built in the Pampulha Campus of UFMG. The focus is given to architectural design experience. The goal is to discuss what public universities have done in relation to planning and sustainability. This study can contribute to the dissemination of appropriate design practices and provide specific information to the scientific milieu. In addition, it is necessary to understand, reflect and suggest improvements on university processes. The subject is broad, therefore, was focused on design issues that reveal the importance of the architectural design to minimize the environmental impacts of a university building in all phases of its life cycle. To exemplify the study, the project of the Quarteirão 10 of Campus of Pampulha of UFMG was evaluated. After a bibliographic review, a case study was showed through qualitative presentation and objects analysis, taking into account the importance of the architectural design for all phases of the life cycle of the building. It was verified that UFMG advances regarding to sustainable construction, but needs to revise its planning and adapt procedures so that the architecture design process is more efficient.