Elaheh Demirchelie

A’ Design Award Grand Jury Panel brings together the World’s leading design professionals, prominent academics, influential press members and leading experts in industry to recognize, cherish and value good design products, projects and services. The award is a source of inspiration for award-winning designers, artists, architects, brands and design agencies and recognizes excellent and original design work from across the globe.

"At the core of Demirchelie there is a significant focus on projects that serve as a reflection of our time, current technology, and culture. Elaheh approaches each project in a speculative manner, with a process that promotes thinking, writing, and making while employing various digital technologies to advance the conceptual exploration of ideas. Like many of her peers, she has embraced a symbiosis with technology, utilising its benefits alongside more traditional efforts to deliver the best… Show more

"At the core of Demirchelie there is a significant focus on projects that serve as a reflection of our time, current technology, and culture. Elaheh approaches each project in a speculative manner, with a process that promotes thinking, writing, and making while employing various digital technologies to advance the conceptual exploration of ideas. Like many of her peers, she has embraced a symbiosis with technology, utilising its benefits alongside more traditional efforts to deliver the best possible end product.

The driving factor behind Demirchelie’s work is to highlight, examine and promote solutions to the world’s more pressing societal issues. She believes – wholeheartedly- that it’s an architect’s responsibility to contribute to these issues through innovative design. Within this ideology, the studio tackles significant global challenges such as the shortage of housing in urban areas, global waste production, and the severe increase of plastics in our oceans. The practice focuses on these broader issues through the lens of architecture, product design, and creative direction while collaborating with like-minded individuals and entities." Show less

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Global Design & Architecture Design Awards 2021
First Award | Category: Sustainable Design

A' Design Award Grand Jury Panel brings together the World’s leading design professionals, prominent academics, influential press members and leading experts in industry to recognize, cherish and value good design products, projects and services.
"A' Design Award and Competition is the World’s largest, most prestigious and influential design accolade, the highest achievement in design."

Awarded for Corporate Identity, Architecture and Design Industry.

"Now in its 69th year, GOOD DESIGN® is the oldest and the most prestigious Awards Program
organized worldwide. Founded in Chicago in 1950 by the former MoMA curator Edgar
Kaufmann, Jr., together with such pioneers in modern design as Charles and Ray Eames,
Russel Wright, George Nelson, and Eero Saarinen, GOOD DESIGN® honors the yearly
achievements of the best industrial and graphic designers and world… Show more

Awarded for Corporate Identity, Architecture and Design Industry.

"Now in its 69th year, GOOD DESIGN® is the oldest and the most prestigious Awards Program
organized worldwide. Founded in Chicago in 1950 by the former MoMA curator Edgar
Kaufmann, Jr., together with such pioneers in modern design as Charles and Ray Eames,
Russel Wright, George Nelson, and Eero Saarinen, GOOD DESIGN® honors the yearly
achievements of the best industrial and graphic designers and world manufacturers for
their pursuit of extraordinary design excellence."
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Demirchelie received gold for her fashion startup LEONOEL; a San Francisco based sustainable fashion label, which intersects design, environmental science, and technology, contributing to the transformation of the fashion industry by inserting digital design in the process and striving to achieve the smallest environmental footprint throughout the entire life cycle of garments.

LEONOEL consists of three collections:

1- Compostable Collection
2- Biodegradable Collection
3-… Show more

Demirchelie received gold for her fashion startup LEONOEL; a San Francisco based sustainable fashion label, which intersects design, environmental science, and technology, contributing to the transformation of the fashion industry by inserting digital design in the process and striving to achieve the smallest environmental footprint throughout the entire life cycle of garments.

LEONOEL consists of three collections:

1- Compostable Collection
2- Biodegradable Collection
3- Reclaimed Collection

The founding team consists of individuals who have spent their careers contributing to sustainability through various channels. Show less

Awarded for branding and market positioning companies in the Architecture and Design industry. Hermès Creative Award is constructed by Society Awards’, which includes the Golden Globes, Emmy’s, MTV, Academy of Country Music, The Voice and Dancing with the Stars.

A' Design Award Grand Jury Panel brings together the World’s leading design professionals, prominent academics, influential press members and leading experts in industry to recognize, cherish and value good design products, projects and services.

The proposal tackles the problem of housing in the city of San Francisco, by carefully studying it through the lens of urban planning, environmental sustainability, social and psychological behavioral patterns and opens a new dialogue towards a more sustainable future inclusive of the many layers of individuals that help enrich our cities. The project is currently in conceptual phase of design with various micro unit configurations and facades in conceptual analysis.

Modest in scale and small in footprint, the 800 square-foot single-family residence located in Mill Valley, California, explores with sustainability, materiality, and compact spatial planning, characterized by a minimal hyperrectangular form which informs the interior. Elements of volume, light, proportion, and materiality are orchestrated to respond to the project’s unique compact spatial challenges, echoing the juxtaposition of intimacy and openness.
Made out of solid Cross-Laminated… Show more

Modest in scale and small in footprint, the 800 square-foot single-family residence located in Mill Valley, California, explores with sustainability, materiality, and compact spatial planning, characterized by a minimal hyperrectangular form which informs the interior. Elements of volume, light, proportion, and materiality are orchestrated to respond to the project’s unique compact spatial challenges, echoing the juxtaposition of intimacy and openness.
Made out of solid Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) panels, it combines fast and precise construction with the aesthetics, comfort, and sustainability of wood.
A unified holistic approach in materiality and space planning throughout, merges interior and exterior, building and landscape, into a seamless experience; transforming the ephemeral into the tactile. Show less

LEONOEL is a sustainable fashion brand based in San Francisco created by Elaheh Demirchelie, merging design, technology, and environmental science. LEONOEL aims to solve the simple yet complex issue of reducing the environmental footprint of each garment through its entire lifecycle. Leonoel consists of 100% compostable, biodegradable, and reclaimed collection of clothes.

"For outstanding contributions to improving and shaping the character of design."