Bambu: uso como material construtivo aplicado em uma pousada litorânea

Abstract

Bamboo is an excellent example of renewable material and is very rich in its potentialities, possessing characteristics that offer enormous advantages in its use, being able to easily replace the materials commonly used in construction. Research and applications of bamboo in civil industry are widespread in several countries in Latin America, where there are several buildings that prove their potential as a constructive material. However, in Brazil, its use is underexplored, although the country has natural reserves of the material and planting conditions (MARQUEZ, 2007). Tourism is an activity that has an impact on the environment due to its economic importance, influence and dependence on local natural resources to continue receiving tourists (CURY, et al., 2003). It is in this context that the present work proposes a preliminary project, aiming to promote sustainability in a hotel business, with the purpose of maintaining and protecting the resources offered by the environment in order to control the negative impacts that tourism development causes. Thus, the result is an architectural conception that makes use of bamboo as the main building material, associated with the use of other materials and equally ecological technologies, proposing simplified solutions with the purpose of facilitating the execution and showing that it is possible to make a good architecture using unconventional materials.