LUCAS
DE MENEZES
PEREIRA



PROFILE

ACADEMIC

OUROBOROS OF MASS BURIALS
PERFORMING ARCHIVES
EMBEDDED SANCTUARIES
GROUND:UP
THE WEB PAVILION
THE VARIANT SCHOOL
STUDENT HUB
CANVAS
MAKE

COMPETITIONS
ETHEREAL JOURNEY
SUSTAINABLE AFFORDABLE HOUSING
BIKE STATION
UIA RIO
LADY OF FATIMA PARISH
SOL NASCENTE HOUSING
REVITILIZE RIBEIRA
FAU ARCHIVE
RELIGIOUS AND COMMUNITY CENTER

INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONAL

NATAL IN NATAL
OFFICE TOWER - LOBBY
IMIRA HOTEL FACILITIES
MACAIBA HOUSE
COMMUNITY SPORTS CENTER

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

TRINITY UNIVERSITY WELCOME CENTER (SOON)
NWETC 
PRINTED HOUSE
GUADALUPE BLOCKS
STONE ISLAND




ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

                                                                 

OUROBOROS OF MASS BURRIALS


2023
New York, NY
Columbia GSAPP
Adv VI Studio
Instructor:
Karla Rothstein
 In partnership with: Amith Singh


This project seeks to transform Hart Island, a mass burial site in the Bronx, into a sanctuary for remembrance and healing. The site, vulnerable to sea-level rise, will reimagine burial practices both ecologically and spiritually. Drawing on ancient burial mound techniques, we will
elevate the mass burials while extending the island’s resilience against the water. The mounds will shift over time,responding to grief , l o ss, and the cycles of l ife and death. Ultimately, the project aims to redefine Hart Island as a public sanctuary.

PERFORMING ARCHIVES


2022
Venice, Italy
Columbia GSAPP
Adv V Studio
Instructors:
Jorge Otero-Pailos, Mark Rakatansky
 Individual Project

This proposal is an intervention in Teatro Verde, an open amphitheater built in 1954 and located in the historical site of San Giorgio Maggiore, in Venice - Italy.
The Cini Foundation, which owns the site, was created in 1951 by Vittorio Cini in homage to his deceased son, Giorgio Cini. The Foundation has an embedded archival identity, once since its creation, they are committed to archiving and promoting art history in Venice. Therefore, democratizing the archives by embedding them into the new intervention is a way to highlight the legacy and mission of the foundation.
The Design creates an interplay of present and past, performance and spectacle that are intended to enhance the experience of the Teatro Verde. By dressing and undressing parts of the site, the new spaces create suggestive paths that one can take, and in each procession, one will organically learn about the history of theater and reflect on what is happening in the present. Therefore unarchiving the past is the primary means to historicize the present.



EMBEDDED SANCTUARIES


2022
Hyde Park, NY
Columbia GSAPP
Adv IV Studio
Instructor: Nina Cooke-John
Design in Partnership: Jonghoon Park

The following project is located in Guinea Town, a recently declared historical site in Hyde Park, New York.
Contrasting the past - The site was once a free black community in times of the underground railroad - with the current undocumented immigration issue and exploited workers in rural areas of the state, this project aims to tackle memory by reactivating the sanctuary character of the site.
The design aims to provide sanctuary for undocumented families through the expansion of the site’s existing camping infrastructure, referencing the historical axial quality of Freedonia lane - which once was the main street in the guinea town community.
The design presents a network of programs with different seasonal qualities alongside the historical path, which are linked conceptually and programmatically by birding paths that weave through the park.

GROUND:UP


2021
New York, NY
Columbia GSAPP
Core 3 Studio
Instructor: Galia Solomonoff
Design in Partnership: Michael Lau


This project seeks to transform Hart Island, a mass burial site in the Bronx, into a sanctuary foR remembrance and healing. The site, vulnerable to sea-level rise, will reimagine burial practices both ecologically and spiritually. Drawing on ancient burial mound techniques, we will elevate the mass burials while extending the island’s resilience against the water. The mounds will shift over tim responding to grief , l o ss, and the cycles of l ife and death. Ultimately, the project aims to redefine Hart Island as a public sanctuary.

THE WEB PAVILION


Spring 2022
Columbia GSAPP
New York, NY
Instructors:
Galia Solomonoff, Laurie Hawkinson
 Collaborative Project: class of 27 students


This Pavillion is a result of a design-build seminar, A collaborative initiative to design, build, and program a temporary structure that was designed and erected by the students at Columbia GSAPP, in the area between Avery, Fayerweather, and Schermerhorn Halls during the Spring semester of 2022. My participation included concept design, schedule, cable support structure installation, and inflatable installation.

THE VARIANT SCHOOL


2017
Natal, Brazil
Professional - Competition
Honorable Mention
Design in Partnership: Leonardo Dias, Renata Oliveira, Carolina de Souza, Alessi Dionisi, Daniel Calderon

This project introduces a new pedagogy to the school based on Montessori education, focusing on the individuality of the student and sensorial sensitivity. Operating with an outside-in approach, new topological structures were strategically introduced to the current building. They create new field conditions, taking into consideration light, movement, and accumulation. Overall, the new P.S. 64 should create a ludic and stimulating environment that embodies diversity and praises the complexity of our human neural system.

STUDENT HUB


2020
New York, N Y
Columbia GSAPP
Core 1 Studio
Instructor: Anna Puigjaner
Individual work

This proposal is a hub for first generation college students in the Upper West Side of New York. Ultimately, it performs as a catalyst for creating a mutual and perpetual sense of belonging between studentsand community. These hubs are placed on the rooftops of existing residential buildings, breaking their exclusivity and hosting a student housing and a community garden.

CANVAS


2016
Natal , Brazil
Universidade Federal do Rio grande do Norte
Final Thesis
Instructor:
Marcelo Tinoco
individual

This project is part of the final thesis presented in 2016 at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. The thesis approached parametric desig theoretically through the design of a cultural pavilion in the city of Natal, Brazil. The project provides a space for the public to gather and for spontaneous events to take place in a city that lacks public space. The building structure and enclosure reflect its programmatic character which becomes a great canvas with a flexible structure to host both small and large public events.

MAKE


2022
Columbia GSAPP
Instructors:
Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano (LOT-EK)
 Individual


The following pieces are a product of a semester of experimenting with different materials every two weeks. They are a result of observing what is around and being sensitive to what’s within. An introspective experience.