About

Award Winning Architectural Design service founded in 2008 by principal registered Architect, Wasel Delawar.

Dela Designs is an Award Winning Architectural Design service founded in 2008 by principal registered Architect, Wasel Delawar. Wasel obtained a Masters of Architecture (UTS) , Masters of Architecture (TU Berlin) and has worked on a wide range of projects in Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth) and overseas (Berlin, London).

The work of Dela Designs has received national and international recognition. Their award-winning projects have received acclaim for the skill with which they redefine their contexts at multiple scales, not only realising innovative and technically robust design solutions, but enriching a project’s productive impact on its surroundings.

Dela Designs is a design-driven studio which produces diverse projects in architecture, interiors and urban strategies by blending a signature collaborative process with professional talent, creative thinking and emerging technologies. It specialises in high-end residential renovations, new home construction and commercial and retail development.

Its commitment to enhance and protect both the cultural and natural environments of the communities it serves is evident in the beauty and technical craftsmanship of the designs and in the long-term sustainability of its projects.

The investigation of design and architectural ideas at Dela Designs involves a rich process where the tools of drawing and sketching by hand, model making, rendering, and computer associated methods are deployed. There exists no ordained methodology at which the design solution is arrived. Programmatic needs, conditions of the site, and attention to the client’s desires all serve to inform this process. Our focus intensifies when we examine the spatial experience of our work.

This representation allows us to thoroughly explore the architecture as it will be experienced in its built construct. We do not impose a particular language to a design idea. Rather we allow the process to inform, and as a result allow our language to reinforce the inherent ideas latent within every project.

Wasel Delawar

Principal

As a founder director of Dela Designs, Wasel has been a key driver in the firm’s continued growth and success for over many years. Wasel completed his Bachelors and Masters of Architecture in 2011 from UTS, followed by his registration with the NSW Architects Registration Board in 2013.

Wasel is an award winning architect with solid reputation for driving many creative projects in Australia. He has been a project director and project architect which has lead teams working on a variety of projects in Retail, Commercial and High end residential. He has previously worked at NBRS+ Partners, HHPM Architects & COB Architects.

Wasel also embrace’s the principles of environmentally sustainable design (ESD) by fully assessing each project’s ESD possibilities and then working closely with clients to define an extent to which ESD is to be optimized, based on opportunities, budget and aesthetics.

Charlotte Serna

Graduate Architect/Interior Designer

Charlotte is a Venezuelan architect who has chosen Australia as her new home after graduating in Masters of Architecture in Venezuela. During her studies in Venezuela she gained a wide range of experience working in a number of offices including ADJKM Architects, with a focus in residential design.

Before joining Dela designs, she worked for a year as an architect in Venezuela; in architectural boutiques firms where she focused on high end residential architecture and interior design giving great attention to detail to all the projects she worked on. Always having an interest on residential architecture, her main research during her masters was developing new and efficient ways of living in limited spaces.

As a typical Venezuelan Charlotte loves the beach. She also has a particular interest in Arts, trying always new ways to express her artistic side through sculpture and painting.

Victor Fung

Graduate Architect

Victor joined Dela designs in 2016 after working for 2 years at a local, award winning office and more recently working in private practice on Sydney’s CBD. With a primary focus on high-end residential work, Victor has also worked on numerous multi-unit residential buildings.

Victor believes architecture is about living experiences, all kinds of experiences allows an architect to provide a considerable design. Therefore, he trained himself to be adaptable with different conditions. He also believes architecture could be as specific as the needs of the clients but also as universal as the needs of the public interest. He is committed to use his abilities of management, computer aided design, and sustainable architecture to impact in the creation of life changing environments.