Retrofit enhances the performance and expands the lifetime of a building as well as enables the combination of environmental, social and economic sustainability issues with its aesthetical and functional aspects. Therefore, this case study aimed to assess the adopted strategies in a commercial building located in the city of São Leopoldo Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, by joining sustainable and economically feasible solutions to the project and applying retrofit by using current aesthetical and corporate elements to improve user satisfaction. Initially, data were collected through on-site visits in order to assess the existing building and apply a post-occupation evaluation (POE) questionnaire. These visits were also intended to identify elements associated with the characteristics of the existing building that could be modified. Subsequently, the design guidelines were defined according to the LEED certification for New Construction & Major Renovation and for Commercial Interiors. This paper presents the designs of the new proposal developed as well as the images of the construction process until its conclusion, when a new POE questionnaire was applied to verify the design solutions. The comparison between the questionnaires demonstrates an increase in user satisfaction levels after the application of retrofit and the importance of POE for building retrofit design definitions.
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Author Name: Maria Fernanda Oliveira, Daniel Reis Medeiros, Isabela Franco Schreiber, Matheus Vanzin Verona, Fernanda Pacheco
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Keywords: Retrofit; Corporate Architecture; Quality in the workplace; Post-occupation evaluation; User satisfaction
ISSN: 24470899
EISSN: 24473073
EOI/DOI: https://doi.org/10.29183/2447-
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