Centro de Formação e Capacitação Digital.

Abstract

This paper proposes, at the preliminary project level, a Digital Training Center, called EcoTech, given the growing need to combat digital exclusion in Brazil and the world and the demand for guidelines to encourage Digital Literacy. This study addressed topics such as the need to combat digital exclusion in our country, based on data that show the gap in access and knowledge of digital media between regions and social classes. In addition, it is clear that the same scenario is repeated on a global scale, in both developed and underdeveloped countries, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the need for measures for global digital equality. It also shows the need for digital literacy guidelines aimed at the elderly population, aiming at the social inclusion of this segment of the population that has become the majority of the Brazilian population every year. Furthermore, when it comes to architectural concepts, a creative approach is proposed based on sustainability, automation and energy efficiency strategies, associating technology as the main basis of this work, as well as its harmony with the environment, showing that the two approaches can coexist in harmony without overlapping any part. And, as a design mechanism, parametric architecture was used as a way of bringing technology into the creative process as well and how it can be a tool for studying shading, air conditioning, volumetrics, etc. The buildings were strategically designed and positioned on the site in order to promote thermal efficiency through humid ventilation strategies, natural lighting, among others, but also in a way that the view of the existing forest was preserved, for this reason, large glass panels with luminothermic treatment were used. In addition to the glass panels, reinforced concrete was chosen for the structure, since it is a material that speaks to some of the acoustic strategies used and some steel pillars were also necessary to support larger spans than conventional ones. Finally, it was possible to design a humane and environmentally correct architecture, where the sustainability of the project was taken into consideration throughout the creative and conceptual process, using strategies of efficient natural lighting, humid ventilation, internal temperature management through the use of internal courtyards, among others. It was possible to translate, through architecture, how technology, if well used and worked correctly, has the power to positively impact lives and promote increasingly less aggressive environments, both for humans and for the environment.