Lucas Melchiori Pereira

@fau.usp.br

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

Lucas Melchiori Pereira


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RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

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

226

Scholar Citations

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Scopus Publications

  • Usability test and implications of an activity allocation mapping in complex organizations: perceptions about a software by emergency room agents
    Lucas Melchiori Pereira, Sheila Walbe Ornstein
    Archnet Ijar International Journal of Architectural Research, 2025
    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.
  • Early design BIM-based Target Value Design for public facilities: An application to a healthcare facility case
    Cristiane Bueno, Lucas Melchiori Pereira, Marcio Minto Fabricio
    International Journal of Architectural Computing, 2024
    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.
  • A Systematic Literature Review on Healthcare Facility Evaluation Methods
    Lucas Melchiori Pereira, Sheila Walbe Ornstein
    Health Environments Research and Design Journal, 2023
    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, Ana Judite Galbiatti Limongi França
    Applied Sciences Switzerland, 2023
    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, M M Fabricio
    Iop Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, 2022
    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, Márcio Minto Fabricio
    Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2018
    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

  • 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 19 (1), 286-308 , 2025
    2025
  • Uso do MAEA para subsidiar o projeto baseado em evidências: o caso do mapeamento de um estudo preliminar para um pronto socorro hospitalar
    LM Pereira, SW Ornstein, MA Barbosa
    Ambiente Construído 25, e143399 , 2025
    2025
  • Automatização da conferência 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 CONSTRUÍDO 20, 1-13 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Aplicativo de análise automatizada de IFC para estudos orçamentários
    LM Pereira, JA da Motta Gaspar, S Dimitrov, TB dos Santos, A Dolavale
    ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGIA DO AMBIENTE CONSTRUÍDO 20, 1-15 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • 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
    2024
    Citations: 7
  • Subsídios baseados em evidências para o projeto do Pronto-Socorro do Hospital Universitário da USP
    MA Barbosa, SW Ornstein, LM Pereira
    Caderno de Resumos , 2024
    2024
  • Análise das propostas de InfoVis para um software de alocação de atividades no ambiente construído
    LM Pereira, SW Ornstein, LMR Velloso
    SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE QUALIDADE DE PROJETO DO AMBIENTE CONSTRUÍDO 8 (1) , 2023
    2023
  • Código do projeto do software de Análise Organizacional/Organizational Analysis
    LM Pereira, J Amaro, SW Ornstein, DC Mazzi
    Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de São Paulo , 2023
    2023
  • Listas de relações entre atividades e espaços do pronto-socorro do Hosítal Universitário da Universidade de São Paulo (HUUSP)
    L Melchiori Pereira, V Sanches Lemes Soares, S Walbe Ornstein
    Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo , 2023
    2023
  • Software de Mapeamento da alocação de Espaço-atividade (MAEA)
    L Melchiori Pereira, J Amaro, D Cariolin Mazzi, S Walbe Ornstein
    Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de São Paulo , 2023
    2023
  • Quantificação de fluxos nos acessos aos setores
    V Sanches Lemes Soares, L Melchiori Pereira
    Sheila Walbe Ornstein , 2023
    2023
  • Tabelas com os dados de quantificação de fluxos organizados por período de observação
    V Sanches Lemes Soares, L Melchiori Pereira
    Sheila Walbe Ornstein , 2023
    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
    2023
    Citations: 17
  • 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 França
    Applied Sciences 13 (3), 1599 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 6
  • 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
    2022
    Citations: 1
  • Discussão sobre a natureza da pesquisa construtiva: Discussion on the nature of constructive research
    LM Pereira
    Revista Teoria e História da Arquitetura (2675-097X) 1 (1) , 2020
    2020
  • Flexibilidade na Habitação Social: a prática e a teoria em busca da qualidade espacial
    L Logsdon, LM PEREIRA, J FRANCO, MM FABRICIO
    Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade de Projeto do Ambiente Construído (SBQP) 6 … , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 5
  • A influência organizacional sobre a qualidade do projeto do ambiente construído
    LM Pereira
    Universidade de São Paulo , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 2
  • Aplicação do TVD assistido por BIM na fase inicial de um projeto colaborativo
    LM Pereira, FAM Ferrari, GH Camelo, DLL de Jesus Aragão
    ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGIA DO AMBIENTE CONSTRUÍDO 17 (1), 2329-2337 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 2
  • 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
    2018
    Citations: 142

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • 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
    2018
    Citations: 142
  • A systematic literature review on healthcare facility evaluation methods
    LM Pereira, SW Ornstein
    HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal 16 (3), 338-361 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 17
  • Estudo exploratório comparativo da eficácia entre protótipos físico, analítico 2D e 3D na identificação de inconsistências de projetos
    LM Pereira, FA Saffaro, EH Hirota, C Saito
    Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos 10 (1), 29-47 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 11
  • Desenho Organizacional para a Integração de Projetos através da Modelagem da Informação em Processos Colaborativos
    LM PEREIRA
    Universidade Estadual de Londrina-UEL, Londrina , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 8
  • 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
    2024
    Citations: 7
  • Avaliação Pós-Ocupação em sistemas construtivos inovadores: considerações finais
    SW Ornstein, MM Fabricio, R Ono, FL Oliveira, MCM Mendes, LM Pereira, ...
    Avaliação de desempenho de tecnologias construtivas inovadoras: conforto … , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 7
  • 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 França
    Applied Sciences 13 (3), 1599 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 6
  • Percepção dos usuários e avaliação de desempenho em uso de habitações em sistemas construtivos inovadores
    R Ono, MCM Mendes, LM Pereira, SW Ornstein, MM Fabricio, F Vittorino
    Avaliação de desempenho de tecnologias construtivas inovadoras: conforto … , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 6
  • Flexibilidade na Habitação Social: a prática e a teoria em busca da qualidade espacial
    L Logsdon, LM PEREIRA, J FRANCO, MM FABRICIO
    Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade de Projeto do Ambiente Construído (SBQP) 6 … , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 5
  • Avaliação de desempenho em uso e manutenção de habitações em sistemas construtivos inovadores
    R Ono, MCM Mendes, MM Fabricio, SW Ornstein, FL de Oliveira, ...
    Avaliação de desempenho de tecnologias construtivas inovadoras: conforto … , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 5
  • Automatização da conferência 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 CONSTRUÍDO 20, 1-13 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • A influência organizacional sobre a qualidade do projeto do ambiente construído
    LM Pereira
    Universidade de São Paulo , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 2
  • Aplicação do TVD assistido por BIM na fase inicial de um projeto colaborativo
    LM Pereira, FAM Ferrari, GH Camelo, DLL de Jesus Aragão
    ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGIA DO AMBIENTE CONSTRUÍDO 17 (1), 2329-2337 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 2
  • Implicações organizacionais da colaboração em BIM para a integração do processo de projeto
    LM Pereira, EH Hirota, MM Fabricio
    V SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE QUALIDADE DE PROJETO NO AMBIENTE CONSTRUÍDO-SBQP, 1-10 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 2
  • Aplicativo de análise automatizada de IFC para estudos orçamentários
    LM Pereira, JA da Motta Gaspar, S Dimitrov, TB dos Santos, A Dolavale
    ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGIA DO AMBIENTE CONSTRUÍDO 20, 1-15 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • 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
    2022
    Citations: 1
  • Organização das atividades de custeio meta e gestão de requisitos no processo de projeto de habitação de interesse social
    LM Pereira, EH Hirota, MM Fabricio
    Anais: A cidade habitada, 2419 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 1
  • Informatização dos instrumentos de avaliação da manutenibilidade para homologação de sistemas construtivos inovadores
    LM Pereira, NHN Bondança, MM Fabrício, DC Reis
    Blucher Engineering Proceedings 2 (2), 682-695 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 1
  • 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 19 (1), 286-308 , 2025
    2025
  • Uso do MAEA para subsidiar o projeto baseado em evidências: o caso do mapeamento de um estudo preliminar para um pronto socorro hospitalar
    LM Pereira, SW Ornstein, MA Barbosa
    Ambiente Construído 25, e143399 , 2025
    2025