Lucas Melchiori Pereira

@fau.usp.br

Professor, Department of Technology
Facudade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo e de Design da Universidade de São Paulo

https://researchid.co/lucas_melchiori

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Architecture, Civil and Structural Engineering, Business, Management and Accounting, Multidisciplinary

Scopus Publications

210

Scholar Citations

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Scopus Publications

Wasserstein generative adversarial networks for topology optimization
Lucas Pereira and Larissa Driemeier
Elsevier BV

Early design BIM-based Target Value Design for public facilities: An application to a healthcare facility case
Cristiane Bueno, Lucas Melchiori Pereira, and Marcio Minto Fabricio
SAGE Publications
The objective of this article is to develop an agile application based on BIM for the integration of Target Value Design into the design process, in order to offer a resource to support decision-making process from the early design stages. The research applies the operational research method by the methodological steps: (a) Identify input data sources and develop the input setup; (b) Develop BIM-based cost estimation of visual programming and apply program in one case; (c) Discussion of the potentialities and challenges of the proposed approach to outline the research findings. A direct link between cost estimation and BIM objects was created to promote Target Value Design in the design process through visual programming. The necessary agility was obtained through semi-automation of the process of incorporating the cost data within the parametric modelling family and extracting cost estimate totals from the model to a pre-defined spreadsheet, allowing the continuous updating of models.

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION THROUGH GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS

Usability test and implications of an activity allocation mapping in complex organizations: perceptions about a software by emergency room agents
Lucas Melchiori Pereira and Sheila Walbe Ornstein
Emerald
PurposeProperly allocating an organization's activities within a building is vital to reducing the relational complexity arising from process–environment interactions. Multiple relationships are mapped, and certain interferences are only identified after these have been processed. The method/software employed for this task is Mapping Activity Environment Allocation (MAEA). However, data input and interpretation of results depend on the usability conditions of the organization's agents. This paper presents MAEA's usability test results.Design/methodology/approachTest sessions and interviews were carried out with seven agents registered at a University Hospital. Participants were instructed to think aloud during its use, and immediately afterward, responded to semi-structured interviews. Test sessions were audio recorded and screen captured.FindingsParticipants found the software easy to use and pointed out valuable implications for professional and academic use. In addition to relationship, priority and parallelism data, customized visualizations were created, including organizational charts, flowcharts and activity flow routes on the floor plan.Practical implicationsMAEA's simplicity allows non-designers to conduct evidence-based assessments and decisions. It allows designers to test their proposals during the programming and outline proposal stages.Social implicationsA more detailed definition of design requirements from the beginning increases the conditions to successfully achieve project goals.Originality/valueThe ability to map the allocation of activity-spaces in the pre-design phase of building architecture allows for early identification of interactions, aiding in the development of more robust project requirements during programming.

A Systematic Literature Review on Healthcare Facility Evaluation Methods
Lucas Melchiori Pereira and Sheila Walbe Ornstein
SAGE Publications
To present a systematic literature review on predesign evaluation (PDE), postoccupancy evaluation (POE), and evidence-based design (EBD); to delimit the concepts and relationships of these terms and place them in the building life cycle framework to guide their application and indicate a common understanding and possible gaps. The preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses protocol was used. Inclusion criteria cover texts that present a concept, method, procedure, or tool and use the example in healthcare services or other environments. The reports were excluded if there was no evidence of a relationship between the terms, if cited rhetorically, duplicated, or if an instrument was not related to at least one other term. The identification used Scopus and Web of Science and considered reports until December 2021 (search period). When extracting the evidence, formal quality criteria were observed and sentences and other elements were collected as evidence and tabulated to segment topics of interest. The searches identified 799 reports with 494 duplicates. In the selection, 53 records were selected from 305 obtained in 14 searches. The classification extracted concepts, relationships, and frameworks. Results indicate a consistent understanding of POE and EBD and a diffuse understanding of PDE. A summary of the three concepts including two frameworks is proposed. Situations are contextualized where these frameworks are used in specific areas of research. One of these frameworks provides a basis for classifying building assessment methods, procedures, and tools but does not detail the classification criteria. Thus, more detailed adjustments should be considered in specific studies.

Congruence Mapping of the Activity Flows Allocated in Built Environments: A Pilot Application of Under-Development Software in an Emergency-Care Service
Lucas Melchiori Pereira, Sheila Walbe Ornstein, Vitória Sanches Lemes Soares, Jean Amaro, and Ana Judite Galbiatti Limongi França
MDPI AG
Due to the large number of activities that must be carried out by emergency-care services (ESs), the tasks of facility managers and architects are challenging and complex. Several strategies, guides, and diagnoses have already been developed in order to improve ESs. Part of the solution to this problem depends on obtaining a normative and universal understanding of the problem, and another part depends on conducting a specific and relational analysis between the environment and the flow of activities that are allocated within it. This paper presents the results of a study that was conducted using a software program that is currently under development for mapping the congruence relationship between activities and environments. Here, we present a discussion of the first results that were obtained with the instrument, which was applied to a single case. For this purpose, the fundamentals of the instrument, as well as the environment and the flows of an ES at a university hospital, are described. The forms of analysis, benefits, and limitations of the instrument were investigated, with a view towards its use in supporting the management and the design of large and complex environments, such as emergency departments. In this program, the relationships that are hidden from the managers, the designers, and the researchers due to the aforementioned complexity are revealed through the use of matrices. This mapping can supplement the decision making of the managers and the designers. The application showed advantages in modeling with fewer inputs, mainly in pre-design evaluations.

Learning on the job through collaborative learning: Analysing the appropriation of BIM knowledge in micro-enterprise architectural design companies
R C Ferreira, P N Rocha, L M Pereira, R Codinhoto, and M M Fabricio
IOP Publishing
Abstract The lack of Building Information Modelling (BIM) knowledge appropriation by Architectural, Engineering, Construction and Operation (AECO) professionals is often considered one of the main obstacles to successful BIM implementation. Although barriers to implementation have been substantially investigated, a literature review on knowledge appropriation revealed that this area is poorly investigated and biased towards small and medium construction companies. The review also shows that no published research has addressed micro-enterprise design firms, despite these representing approximately 90% of the firms in the AECO sector. In this context, this research investigates whether collaborative learning can be a teaching and learning strategy for appropriating BIM knowledge in architectural design micro-enterprises. The Zone of Proximal Development concept and the Collaborative Learning method were the theoretical lenses to study BIM knowledge appropriation. The research method involved documental analysis of four years of data from a micro-enterprise. The data was classified into vertical collaboration, diagonal collaboration; horizontal collaboration; and individual action. Results show a progressive development of the professionals’ (BIM knowledge) autonomy, as they gradually moved from individual action and vertical collaboration relationships to diagonal and horizontal collaboration actions. The evidence indicates that teaching and learning strategies can contribute to the appropriation of BIM knowledge in the context of micro and small companies.

Life cycle assessment and environmental-based choices at the early design stages: an application using building information modelling
Cristiane Bueno, Lucas Melchiori Pereira, and Márcio Minto Fabricio
Informa UK Limited
ABSTRACT Despite the apparent simplicity of existing BIM-LCA tools, there is a lack of integration with the main BIM software, and the double-effort of design development and parallel simulations is a barrier to their implementation in the design process. Moreover, simplifications on these tools may provide misleading results to the designer. The main aim of this research is to develop an integration interface of manufacturer-based LCA data into a BIM platform by combining applications of existing and consolidated tools (namely, Autodesk Revit and Dynamo, and Microsoft Excel), in order to obtain environmental profiles for decision-making in the initial design stages, requiring less time, effort and ad hoc experts. The methodological procedures were aggregated into the following system development and testing phases: (a) input data organization, (b) creating new parameters on BIM software, (c) visual programming, (d) results analysis for decision-making and (e) simulation of social housing. The results of the developed tool provided complete results automatically, not requiring the designer to make changes in the software or interfaces. Some limitations were identified during development and application, due to the lack of LCA data availability by manufacturers, the complexity of data programming importation and extraction on BIM software for different construction subsystems, and the complexity of LCA results analysis and understanding encountered by non-experts. Regarding the latter, the research concluded that broad knowledge dissemination is still necessary to improve awareness regarding this environmental assessment methodology, in addition to determining the most advantageous environmental performance parameters, as a reference point for comparison.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

A expanso da OCDE na Amrica Latina: anlise dos processos de acesso dos pases da regio
L Pereira
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) 2025

Automatizao da conferncia de requisitos legais em entregas de BIM
ACCF de Andrade, AP Costa, LM Pereira, JA da Motta Gaspar, S Dimitrov
ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGIA DO AMBIENTE CONSTRUDO 20, 1-13 2024

Aplicativo de anlise automatizada de IFC para estudos oramentrios
LM Pereira, JA da Motta Gaspar, S Dimitrov, TB dos Santos, A Dolavale
ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGIA DO AMBIENTE CONSTRUDO 20, 1-15 2024

Early design BIM-based Target Value Design for public facilities: An application to a healthcare facility case
C Bueno, LM Pereira, MM Fabricio
International Journal of Architectural Computing 22 (3), 540-558 2024

Usability test and implications of an activity allocation mapping in complex organizations: perceptions about a software by emergency room agents
LM Pereira, SW Ornstein
Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research 2024

Subsdios baseados em evidncias para o projeto do Pronto-Socorro do Hospital Universitrio da USP
MA Barbosa, SW Ornstein, LM Pereira
Caderno de Resumos 2024

Anlise das propostas de InfoVis para um software de alocao de atividades no ambiente construdo
LM Pereira, SW Ornstein, LMR Velloso
SIMPSIO BRASILEIRO DE QUALIDADE DE PROJETO DO AMBIENTE CONSTRUDO 8 (1) 2023

Cdigo do projeto do software de Anlise Organizacional/Organizational Analysis
LM Pereira, J Amaro, SW Ornstein, DC Mazzi
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de So Paulo 2023

Listas de relaes entre atividades e espaos do pronto-socorro do Hostal Universitrio da Universidade de So Paulo (HUUSP)
L Melchiori Pereira, V Sanches Lemes Soares, S Walbe Ornstein
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de So Paulo 2023

Software de Mapeamento da alocao de Espao-atividade (MAEA)
L Melchiori Pereira, J Amaro, D Cariolin Mazzi, S Walbe Ornstein
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de So Paulo 2023

Quantificao de fluxos nos corredores
V Sanches Lemes Soares, L Melchiori Pereira
Sheila Walbe Ornstein 2023

Quantificao de fluxos por perodo de observao
V Sanches Lemes Soares, L Melchiori Pereira
Sheila Walbe Ornstein 2023

A systematic literature review on healthcare facility evaluation methods
LM Pereira, SW Ornstein
HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal 16 (3), 338-361 2023

Congruence mapping of the activity flows allocated in built environments: A pilot application of under-development software in an emergency-care service
LM Pereira, SW Ornstein, VSL Soares, J Amaro, AJGL Frana
Applied Sciences 13 (3), 1599 2023

Learning on the job through collaborative learning: analysing the appropriation of BIM knowledge in micro-enterprise architectural design companies
RC Ferreira, PN Rocha, LM Pereira, R Codinhoto, MM Fabricio
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1101 (3), 032009 2022

Discusso sobre a natureza da pesquisa construtiva: Discussion on the nature of constructive research
LM Pereira
Revista Teoria e Histria da Arquitetura (2675-097X) 1 (1) 2020

FLEXIBILIDADE NA HABITAO SOCIAL:: A PRTICA E A TEORIA EM BUSCA DA QUALIDADE ESPACIAL
L Logsdon, LM PEREIRA, J FRANCO, MM FABRICIO
SIMPSIO BRASILEIRO DE QUALIDADE DE PROJETO DO AMBIENTE CONSTRUDO 6 (1 2019

A influncia organizacional sobre a qualidade do projeto do ambiente construdo
LM Pereira
Universidade de So Paulo 2019

Aplicao do TVD assistido por BIM na fase inicial de um projeto colaborativo
LM Pereira, FAM Ferrari, GH Camelo, DLL de Jesus Arago
ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGIA DO AMBIENTE CONSTRUDO 17 (1), 2329-2337 2018

Life cycle assessment and environmental-based choices at the early design stages: an application using building information modelling
C Bueno, LM Pereira, MM Fabricio
Architectural Engineering and Design Management 14 (5), 332-346 2018

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Estudo exploratrio comparativo da eficcia entre prottipos fsico, analtico 2D e 3D na identificao de inconsistncias de projetos
LM Pereira, FA Saffaro, EH Hirota, C Saito
Gesto & Tecnologia de Projetos 10 (1), 29-47 2015
Citations: 10

A systematic literature review on healthcare facility evaluation methods
LM Pereira, SW Ornstein
HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal 16 (3), 338-361 2023
Citations: 9

Avaliao Ps-Ocupao em sistemas construtivos inovadores: consideraes finais
SW Ornstein, MM Fabricio, R Ono, FL Oliveira, MCM Mendes, LM Pereira, ...
Avaliao de desempenho de tecnologias construtivas inovadoras: conforto 2017
Citations: 8

Avaliao de desempenho em uso e manuteno de habitaes em sistemas construtivos inovadores
R Ono, MCM Mendes, MM Fabricio, SW Ornstein, FL de Oliveira, ...
Avaliao de desempenho de tecnologias construtivas inovadoras: conforto 2017
Citations: 7

Percepo dos usurios e avaliao de desempenho em uso de habitaes com sistemas construtivos inovadores
R Ono, MCM Mendes, LM Pereira, SW Ornstein, MM Fabricio, F Vittorino
Avaliao de desempenho de tecnologias construtivas inovadoras: conforto 2017
Citations: 7

Integrao escolar colectnea de textos
LM Pereira
Universidade Tcnica de Lisboa: Faculdade de Motricidade Humana 1993
Citations: 7

Lee SY, Gayraud B, Andrikopoulos K, Shapiro SD, Bunton T, Biery NJ, Dietz HC, Sakai LY, and Ramirez F
L Pereira
Pathogenetic sequence for aneurysm revealed in mice underexpressing 1999
Citations: 5

Andrikopoulos K, Tian J, Lee SY, Keene DR, Ono R, Reinhardt DP, Sakai LY, Biery NJ, Bunton T, Dietz HC, Ramirez F
L Pereira
Targetting of the gene encoding fibrillin-1 recapitulates the vascular 1997
Citations: 5

Desenho Organizacional Para a Integrao de Projetos Atravs da Modelagem da Informao em Processos Colaborativos
LM Pereira
Londrina 2014
Citations: 4

Desenho Organizacional para a Integrao de Projetos atravs da Modelagem da Informao em Processos Colaborativos., 2014
LM PEREIRA
Universidade Estadual de Londrina-UEL, Londrina 2014
Citations: 4

A influncia organizacional sobre a qualidade do projeto do ambiente construdo
LM Pereira
Universidade de So Paulo 2019
Citations: 2

Analysis of LEON3 systems integration for a network-on-chip
LMV Pereira, DR Melo, CA Zeferino, EA Bezerra
2018 IEEE 19th Latin-American Test Symposium (LATS), 1-3 2018
Citations: 2

Implicaes organizacionais da colaborao em BIM para a integrao do processo de projeto
LM Pereira, EH Hirota, MM Fabricio
V SIMPSIO BRASILEIRO DE QUALIDADE DE PROJETO NO AMBIENTE CONSTRUDO-SBQP, 1-10 2017
Citations: 2

Anlise de alternativas de integrao do processador leon3 em sistemas embarcados
LMV Pereira, DR Melo, CA Zeferino, EA Bezerra
Anais do Computer on the Beach 8, 269-278 2017
Citations: 1