Fachadas vegetais para melhora do conforto ambiental de edificações: escolha para Curitiba usando análise hierárquica

Abstract

The facades of any building located in the city of Curitiba require frequent treatments suitable climatic variations, characterized by rapid thermal amplitudes over the days, intense cold and heat temperatures well defined seasons in winter and summer. The greenery facade systems are becoming techniques to improve the thermal performance of buildings and the users comfort sensation. This article aims to choose from 4 systems, the green facade system appropriate to the city of Curitiba, in accordance with eight established criteria. The method is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), created by Thomas Saaty, which basically consists of making multi-criteria decisions. The results indicated that the greenary facade system with blanket is best solution with 30.17% of all score, although the option is more expensive and requires more maintenance. Keywords: Greenary Facade, Analytic Hierarchy Process, Curitiba.