Avaliação de manifestações patológicas em edifícios em função da orientação geográfica

In order to evaluate the incidence of pathological manifestations in buildings facades, correlating with the geographic directions, this study analyzed 52 residential and commercial buildings distributed in various parts of the city of Curitiba - Brazil. It was observed that all the buildings surveyed had some kind of pathological manifestation, and 25 had problems on the facades. It was found that the pathological manifestations in facades appear in different amounts in different directions, having identified a relationship with temperature variation and the direction of the wind, according to geographical direction.

Keywords:durability; facade; geographic direction; pathological manifestation.