WE ARE MADE
STUDIO PROFILE
MADE Design—Merlin Architecture Design—is an award-winning, New Orleans-based architectural design firm. We are cross-disciplinary, tech-driven, and client-oriented, using cutting edge processes and a contemporary aesthetic to deliver projects of a higher caliber for a nationwide clientele.
Boundaries between the disciplines of science, engineering, design, and art are growing increasingly blurred; we believe the process of designing and creating is similarly interwoven. As architects, it is our responsibility to guide clients through the design process and navigate toward creative and powerful outcomes. It is in this intersection between idea and material, conceptual and tangible, that we at MADE thrive.
MADE previously operated as One to One Design, founded in 2014. With a team of leading architects, designers, and technology experts, MADE provides full-service architectural design and design-related consulting services, both technological and technical. Our diverse portfolio of work includes education, cultural, healthcare, office, residential, and retail projects for a variety of public, private, corporate, and institutional clients.
OUR APPROACH
There are two driving forces behind MADE: technology and relationships.
We believe in fully leveraging technology to enhance the process of designing and creating. We embrace innovative tools for better outcomes and to ensure our vision is the same as the client’s. Tools such as building information modeling, design computation, rendering, and rapid prototyping allow us to test ideas efficiently and discover unique design opportunities that might typically be overlooked. Using these state-of-the-art technological processes, we develop spaces that speak to the natural and built environment while using environmentally responsible and sustainable design solutions, processes, and materials.
Drawing on design thinking, modern aesthetics, and emerging technologies, MADE seeks to understand and respect the built environment, then carry the best of that architectural vernacular into a contemporary realm.
MADE’s vision is a harmonious balance—scale, proportion, materiality, and program—across new and existing architecture.
Yet we also know there are qualities necessary for great client relationships, elements technology can aid, but cannot emulate—the ability to listen, understand, and establish trust. Architecture is a romantic profession; architects are, after all, designers. At MADE, however, we are invigorated by the interrelationship between design, technology, science, and the client. To us, a successful project is one in which all stakeholders experience a strong connection, clear communication, and aligned expectations.
