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**1. Introduction** 

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This paper assembles the complete work of environmental design developed for the new research centre of the Brazilian Petroleum Company, Petrobras, in the tropical city Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil (latitude 22.53S). The main objective is to make clear the relationship between architectural solutions, environmental strategies and quality of space, by presenting the criteria and methods applied to the architectural concept and technical assessment of four complementary areas of environmental design: outdoors comfort, daylight and natural ventilation in buildings and, ultimately, the energy performance of air

Undertaken by members of the Laboratory of Environment and Energy Studies (LABAUT) from the Department of Technology of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of University of Sao Paulo (FAUUSP), the environmental design of the new research centre of Petrobras was a comprehensive project of research pro-design related to the environmental performance of contemporary buildings in one of the Brazilian's main cities, Rio de Janeiro.

The design project was the object of a national architectural competition held in 2004. The programme of activities is an extension of the existing research centre, including laboratory rooms, offices, a convention centre, restaurants, greenhouse spaces and other special facilities (e.g. energy generation and model testing of petroleum platforms).The total built area of the extension of the Petrobras Research Centre in Rio de Janeiro encompasses 66.700,78 m2, built on 193.290,65 m2 site at the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro (see figure 1),

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