Brazilian climate: a study on climate adaptation and architectural recommendations by the Mahoney Mahoney Method

Abstract

Tools to aid architectural recommendations linked to the climate are very useful in the initial phase of the project, contributing to the designer's decisions and the analysis of different solutions comparatively. Among these tools, the easy-to-use Mahoney Tables stand out, developed for hot and dry climates, aiming at thermal comfort and low cost solutions. A limitation observed in the traditional methodology of Mahoney Tables refers to the analysis in regions with transitory climatic characteristics between two different climates. In order to solve this limitation, a new methodology based on Traditional Mahoney Tables (TMT) has been proposed in the literature: Fuzzy Mahoney Tables (TMN), based on subjective values of fuzzy logic. Thus, the objective of this work is to carry out a comparison between the methodology proposed by the TMT and TMN using the climatic database of the Climatological Standards of 1961 -1990 and 1991 - 2020, analyzing all the cities of the national territory contemplated by this climatic database . The two periods of climate data were adopted in order to verify the capacity of climate adaptation of the two methodologies. The obtained results indicated that the Nebulous Mahoney Tables present greater sensitivity and adaptability to the Brazilian climate, with some caveats.