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Com participação de 54 autores, o livro 'ARQUITECTURA DE TERRA EM PORTUGAL' reúne a colaboração de uma grande diversidade de profissionais ligados à Arquitectura e Construção com Terra. Abrangendo matérias desde a Tecnologia aos Materiais, da História à Antropologia, da Conservação à Investigação, a maioria dos domínios desta actividade são objecto de uma abordagem científica, que contempla os ofícios tradicionais, o ensino e a formação profissional.

ABSTRACT The increase of complexity in school buildings to ensure for users comfort and social and functional demands are changing energy consumption patterns. In the Portuguese context, a recent rise in energy consumption, after a major national refurbishment programme, confirms the need to improve energy management in schools in order to reduce their environmental impact. Besides building design and systems, users are also a determining factor impacting energy consumption in buildings. However, behavioural issues are still among the areas least covered by scientific literature.

The increase of complexity in school buildings to support user comfort and social and functional demands is changing the resources consumption patterns, namely energy. Users indoor comfort conditions also play a significant role in energy demand in school buildings. A significant number of Portuguese public secondary schools were recently refurbished, under a national modernization program. The present paper shares the main results of a multiple case study, comprising eight secondary schools, regarding resources use monitoring (energy and water) and the observational field work concerning users' attitudes and behaviour.Promoting best practices to enhance school buildings sustainability has a double goal: addressing the environmental impact of a large stock of service buildings and simultaneously raise awareness among the younger generations. Introduction The increase of complexity in school buildings to support users comfort and social and functional demands is changing the reso...

COVID-19 quarantine has forced architectural design studios to move into virtual space. These courses that strongly rely on project-based learning and group discussion as crucial pedagogical strategies, had to pass to online classes, forced by confinement. This posed an enormous challenge as it implied significant constraints and significant risk of failure and demotivation among students. Finding therefore models that allowed to promote practices and interaction between students, encourage mutual knowledge and stimulate creativity in approaching new situations, like workshops or intensive group exercises, and counteract social distancing during the confinement was a major concern for first year Architectural Design Studio brief offered at Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon Portugal. The present study focuses on Revolution Our Body nº2, a remote workshop designed and implemented during the second semester of the school year of 2020-2021 coinciding with the first confinement and explores this experience's problems and potential. The pedagogical activity and its results are described, concluding with the possibilities that these new models of participation allow, including its replicability and scalability. The experience included fifty-six first year students and the three design studio teachers from IST as well as two gallery curators from Appleton Square Gallery, in Lisbon. The strong adhesion and interest shown by the students, evidenced in the observable behaviors, and explicitly mentioned during the workshop evaluation, lead us to believe that the objectives initially designed were achieved. Keywords: Design Studio, Learning, Covid’19, Virtual, Workshop