THE BUSINESS

Design by Melo is a provider of architectural and urban design services. With it’s Principal Architect, Damaris Melo-Gyasi, being NCARB certified, Design by Melo can produce and sign permit drawings in all 55 US States. The NCARB Certificate can also be used to support professional registration in Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand. Damaris Melo-Gyasi is also a Registered Architect in all states of her native Brazil.

When you work with Design by Melo, you interact with professionals that bring engaging personalities, multicultural and global backgrounds. These characteristics make us approachable, and nurture an interactive and authentic relationship with clients and communities alike. We create aesthetically pleasing and economically feasible designs that remain relevant as demographics and economics shift.

THE VISION

Design by Melo takes a comprehensive approach to the design of the built environment. We leverage design expertise, sustainability strategies, a highly innovative O&M Portfolio of systems and sensors as well as a community engagement and people data collection digital platform to produce high quality places and spaces, enabling its occupants to feel included, engaged, comfortable and able to maximize their full potential.

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MARKET DIFFERENTATORS:

Inclusive Approach to Design
Cultural Sensitivity
Effective Community Engagement With the Use of Technology

Sustainable Design Leveraging Real Data on Energy & Water Usage
Highly Innovative O&M Portfolio To Maximize Efficiencies

THE GOAL:

Because we believe that the built environment needs to speak to the values of global engagement, cultural competency, inclusion, sustainability and human performance, Design by Melo’s goal on each project is that the final product will have Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts. There are fourteen desired attributes of such projects listed below: