TO SET RIGHT MAKE BETTER IMPROVE
Rotary + Water Missions International
Safe Water Installation
Village of Mahanaim, Haiti
2017
Rotary + Water Missions International
Safe Water Installation
Village of Mahanaim, Haiti
2017
MEND was established in 2019 as a group of collaborators with the belief that the best design solutions are the ones bred through collective effort. We are a consultancy that brings to bear over thirty years of experience in design, construction, academics, consensus-building and leadership for just about anything our clients put before us.
We are a multi-disciplinary design firm with an emphasis on a range of unique projects that have diverse scales and origin stories. Our design approach combines equal amounts of creative skill and critical thinking - allowing us to help our clients navigate the inherent complexities of their projects.
Our home base is Charlotte, North Carolina with satellites in Radenthein, Austria and Vilnius, Lithuania. That just happens to be where everyone lives - there's no other rhyme or reason. Our projects are located all over as well!
We believe that good design can solve problems. If not solving problems, good design can simply be satisfying. We like to think it can often do both. As our tagline says, MEND approaches everything we do with the desire
to set right, make better, improve.
We collaborate with our clients to create innovative and functional designs that meet their specific needs. We guide them along the path from concept to completion - sometimes lingering at the concept stage for a while to explore all kinds of ideas!
First and foremost, we are a registered architectural practice. We approach our work through the iterative stages of design and follow the established protocols and highest standards of practice of our profession.
We are committed to sustainable design practices that minimize the environmental impact of our projects - to the extent required or possible. Our team is knowledgable and able to help explore, evaluate and incorporate sensible, "eco-friendly" design solutions.
Over the years, we have created land planning feasibility studies, planning documents, form-based codes and represented clients in the public sphere as their entitlement agents for thousands of acres of development. We develop strategies that help our clients navigate through consensus building, neighborhood meetings, public hearing presentations and the required approval documents.
We believe that the reuse, (re)adaptation and re-crafting of our urban fabric is vitally important. Too often, the old is abandoned in favor of the new. We resist this, and help our clients restore and reuse precious buildings and our urban infrastructure.
We help clients understand the difference in branding with a little "b" versus a big "B". Branding is not curation, picking out a color scheme or slapping a logo on something. Branding is about relating an origin story, legacy or aspiration with consistency. It's about our client's promise to others and the strength of their message.
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