Single-Family Residential Architecture for Tropical Climate: Recommendations for the City of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Abstract

This article is defined as a study describing the climate of Fortaleza (CE) in order to contribute to the development of guidelines about design for single-family homes in hot and humid climate of low latitude. Thus, through literature review and research for projects located indifferent districts of the city, we tried to determine the bioclimatic strategies applicable to residential buildings to the region under study.