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Table 2: Researchers and staff involved in the design process ZEMCH Brazil
Researchers
and
Collaborators
Group

Researchers/Collaborators Gradation

Responsibility within the design process

Research
coordination

Civil Engineering, PhD in Civil Engineering with
academic experience in Construction Management;

Responsible for coordinating teams

Architectural
Project

Architect and Urbanist, Civil Engineering master
student, professional experience in Architecture and
Urbanism;

Development of Social Housing Unit design.

Constructive
Techniques

Professor, PhD, Architect and Urbanist, expert in wood Collaboration on specific studies on wood,
buildings;
especially in the product design phase.

Energy Efficiency Architect and Urbanist, PhD in Architecture and
Urbanism with academic experience in the area
of energy efficiency, graduate and undergraduate
students;

Development of specific studies for product
improvement in terms of environmental comfort,
as well as studies for inclusion of sustainable
equipment.

Urban Planning Architect and Urbanist, and Master in Architecture and
Urbanism with experience in urban planning;

Collaboration in the development of urban
improvements, focused on low income housing
projects.

Cost and Value

Architect and Urbanist, PhD in Architecture and
Urbanism, with academic and professional experience
in the areas of social housing and Post-Occupancy
Evaluation and Participatory Project;

Development of value evaluation analysis,
considering the view of the end-user and cost
issues as restrictions from PMCMV.

Constructive
System

Civil Engineering, PhD in Civil Engineering with
academic and professional experience in Production
Management, Standardization and prototyping;

Collaboration with technical information and
development of new building systems focused
on lean production concepts.

Legal and
Technical
(external
collaborators)

Local Builders
Assistance with technical and legal marketing
Civil Engineer, Thecnical Director of a private company information on social housing to the city of
from the building sector, active in the program PMCMV; Londrina. The local builder also shared difficulties
and suggestions for possible improvements to
the delivery of the low income houses.
Professionals from the local Housing Council
(COHAB)
Civil Engineer, responsible for design; Social Worker.

Sharing information of technical and legal nature
with regard to PMCMV

Source: Yokota 2015
The first stage of the design process aimed at identifying the profile of families living in social
houses and the greatest needs and desires of the dwellers, raising the value perceptions of
end-users. A first exploratory study was carried out in order to evaluate a PMCMV housing complex composed of 1272 semi-detached houses and 1228 apartments. In this study, 93 houses were
randomly selected.
The value requirements of the Social housing users were obtained from a Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) and the application of a data collection instrument, based on an analogy of a card
game, first developed by Kowaltowski and Granja (2011)1. The purpose was to identify and to analyze the demand as well as to capture the value perceptions of end-users. The APO and Card Deck
tools are detailed in Table 3. Instead of capturing only the levels of satisfaction, we sought to
understand the desired values and their importance ranking.

1

Research instrument in the form of a card game with 5 suits and 26 cards (in Portuguese) representing desired
values for residential design in the context of social housing. The suits represents the value system, divided into five
attributes: (1) financial aspects, (2) socio-cultural perceptions, (3) cultural values, (4) indoor environment quality and (5)
spatial qualities.

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