| dc.description.abstract | This paper analyses the advantages and limits of the Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) approach in the construction of a sustainable architectural design. This approach intends to conciliate technical and behavioral analyses, also considering user preferences and ambitions. The recent energy crisis in Brazil has required POE researches to address urgent questions regarding environmental comfort and energy efficient buildings. Presented here are the main results of a POE regarding hotel architecture in Natal, where power economy is always difficult to achieve its intense use, the peculiarities of user behavior, in addition to the use of inappropriate architectural solutions, which do not take climate and landscape conditions into consideration. To overcome government restrictions, hotel administrators adopted punctual/short term actions, rather than long term solutions. The most common action were the replacement of power sources, inadequate power consumption interruptions or reductions, resulting, many times, in comfort deprivation but not in energetic efficiency. | pt_BR |
