Ecodesign for Ecoeficiente Campus add Circular Economy
and Renewable Energies to reduce impacts and expenses in the South of Bahia
Green Infrastructure, Ecoefficiency, Circular Economics,
Passive Architecture, Green Buildings, Sustainable Universities, Energy Efficiency.
This research aims at the design of the CAMPUS ECOEFICIENTE
CSC Proposal, planning directed to sustainable development with the central objective of reducing
socio-environmental and economic impacts in the southern region of Bahia. Based on the concepts
of Eco-efficiency and Circulation Economics disseminated by the Vanzolini Foundation and Ellen
Mac Arthour Foundation, partners of the University of São Paulo (USP), an illustrative sketch was
developed in which eco-efficient practices identified as potentialities and opportunities for the
UFSP campus in Porto Seguro with a focus on making it a Living Sustainability Laboratory that
includes green infrastructure, bioclimatic requalification of existing buildings to reduce energy
consumption, eco-efficient new construction projects that minimize the impervious areas occupied
and the use of renewable energies associated with circular economy in order to minimize waste,
reduce socio-environmental impacts and operational expenses. The Proposal: "CSC Eco-efficient
Campus" was developed based on systematic literary review, field research and technical visits to
national and international universities, evaluated according to the index "UI Green Metric", focused
on eco-efficient universities according to World Ranking 2017 UI GM, Indonesia) and criteria
published by Fundação Vanzolini of USP. The universities selected as "Case Studies" were USP
and Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) due to the positive results achieved through the implementation
of eco-efficient practices focused on: green infrastructure, use of renewable energies, eco-efficient
projects and generation of circular economy. Proposals for eco-efficient practices were developed
for the CSC committed to the practice of conscious consumption on campus combined with the
practical apprenticeship of Critical Environmental Education, for example in the daily life to be
practiced in the institution. Bioclimatic adaptations of the selected good practices that integrate the
pilot project "ECOEFICIENT CSC CAMPUS" have been proposed, an expected result that
contemplates the planning proposal to develop the university with passive strategies that reduce
socio-environmental impacts, waste and expenses in the CSC (Sosígenes Costa Campus) in Porto
Seguro, object of study of this research.