NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AIMING TO IDENTIFY THE EQUILIBRIUM AND RATIONALIZATION IN THE STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF THE RESIDENTIAL BLOCKS OF THE COLINA - UNB

Resumo

The University of Brasília was part of a daring and experimental plan that reached several
areas of knowledge, its conception was marked by the architectural and constructive experimentation.
Rapid execution and cost-effectiveness were key guidelines in the early years of the Darcy Ribeiro
Campus, making room for precast technology. Inserted in this context, the Colina Residential Buildings
designed by the architect João Filgueiras Lima (Lelé) were built within a year and appear in the
expectation of filling the housing deficit of the university in the mid 1960`s. This work covers the
rationalization process of the construction in the initial context of the physical implantation of the
university. Comparative numerical analyzes are performed using available computational tools such as
Ftool and Sap 2000. Through these analyzes it is possible to justify the choice of the precast structures
by means of the balance of forces and to observe the technical solutions of the structural system adopted.
In addition, the studies reinforce the economic issue of precast structures by quantifying the volume of
the situations tested.