Melieqa Rezaei

WHO I AM

I am an architect (BArch, University of Tabriz) who cares as much about the story behind a design as the design itself. A space isn't just walls and function, it is the thoughts and feelings that shaped it, and my work is making that visible.

Projects usually reach me when the idea is already good but illegible: it lives in the architect's head and dies somewhere between the plan and the board. My job is to find the argument inside the project and give it a structure a jury or a client can follow in seconds, design that works, but also speaks.

What I enjoy most is making the design process feel alive, not just the final result.

What I've been working on

  1. 2025 — Present

    Freelance

    Diagrams, visualisation and 3D modelling

    For architecture studios and independent architects, from first concept diagram to final delivered set. Recent work includes Rhino modelling on 4 small-scale projects for Palette Visuals.

  2. 2025 — Present

    Architectural Graphic Designer

    Atelier Mehrkish · Remote, project-based

    Developed analytical graphics for 12 architectural projects, helping design concepts become clearer for presentations and client communication.

  3. 2025 — Present

    Teaching Assistant

    Palette Academy

  4. 2022 — 2024

    Independent study & professional development

    Intensive German study, design research, environmental volunteering, travel across Iran

    The visual and research habits behind my current work were built in these two years.

  5. 2020 - 2021

    Architectural Intern

    Souzandareh Co.

What I use

Advanced

  • Rhinoceros
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • AutoCAD
  • V-Ray

Working

  • Chaos Corona
  • SketchUp

Familiar

  • ClimateStudio
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Figma
  • Adobe XD

Currently learning

  • Grasshopper
  • Ladybug
  • Honeybee
  • MidJourney
  • Stable Diffusion (ControlNet)
  • Immersity AI

Collaboration & documentation

  • Miro
  • Obsidian
  • Microsoft Office
  • Google Docs

Where it came from

BArch, Architecture

University of Tabriz

2018 – 2022

Final grade 17.13 out of 20

I graduated with a cardiac hospital designed around the patient's path to critical care.

Somewhere in defending it I realised I was more interested in how a design gets understood than in how it gets detailed, which is more or less the job I do now.

What I keep learning

Diagram & Design Communication

  • Coronagraph

    Corona Renderer for Architectural Diagram

    Palette Academy

    Fall 2025 · In Progress

  • Architectural Diagram Course

    Palette Academy

    Spring 2025

    Ranked 1st among students of the 31st cohort

Visualisation & Modelling

  • Storytelling in Architecture with AI

    Kaveh Dadgar

    2026 · In Progress

  • Rhinoceros

    3D Modeling in Architecture

    Palette Academy

    Summer 2025

    Ranked 1st among students of the 19th cohort

Design Thinking & Research

  • Creativity in the Design Process

    LMIMOS, with Hossein Elmi Mousavi

    2026 · In Progress

  • Product Design: The Delft Design Approach

    DelftX (Delft University of Technology) on edX

    Fall 2023

    Certificate

  • Human-Centered Design Camp

    with Benyamin Najafi, Senior Product Designer

    Summer 2023

Digital & Interface

  • UI & UX Design

    Inverse Academy

    2025 · In Progress

  • Introduction to Computer Science

    CS50x Iran (CS50 Harvard University) on edX

  • User Interface Design & User Experience Design

    DUXLab Academy · Hooman Abbasi

    2021

    Certificate

Personal Development

  • German Intensive Course

    A1 – B1 · 9 hours weekly, approx. 400 hours

    Mahan Institute, Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi, Iran

    Sep. 2023 – Sep. 2024

What I speak

Off the clock

Beyond the studio

The same curiosity about people, applied outside the studio.

Five years of volunteering · weekly cleanups with Tamozi NGO, stationery kits for children in rural Kurdistan, a fundraising bazaar for the blind community in Mashhad, and outreach for the Iranian Society of Organ Donation.

A month on the road · travelling across Iran with a camera, photographing architectural details, corners, and random strangers along the way.

How people work · an ongoing interest in how people think and relate to each other, and another lens for understanding who the spaces I design are actually for.