Ecologial sustainability related to city buildings restauration

Abstract

This article aims to outline the ecological parameters of sustainability in order to enable the recovery, maintenance and restoration of the buildings by using technical and material procedures that contribute to minimize the environmental impact of the constructed medium on the local architectural site; and assist in the sustainability and ecological recovery of the town environment. The relevance of this problem is on the intention of delaying the buildings life cycle, by maximizing its use and making possible the vitalization of degraded areas as well as preserving relevant town historical aspects, along with the preservation and recovery of the great urban centers’ environment; teaching the ecology’s first steps to the professionals involved in the process of architectural retrofit and the community as a whole. In the accomplished study it was verified that the use of appropriate architectural procedures can confer to the retrofit, during the building rehabilitation process and by applying environmentally correct technologies and materials, preservation qualities and environmental recovery which contribute a lot to the town’s ecological sustainability; being the eco literacy a primordial factor of the whole process. The adopted methodology to develop this work has been based on several sources: bibliographical research applied mainly to the architectural and ecological techniques areas, contemplating the ethics and the philosophy also; electronic documents that allowed the synchronicity of data updating; and, researches in companies that orientates their products and technologies for the ecological sustainability.