SONELO ARCHITECTS is a Melbourne based architecture and interior design studio founded by Wilson Tang and Elodie Lim.

Collaboratively with our clients, we explore design in its multi-layered realms of the project brief, site, form, functionality, materiality, affordability, and connection with the landscape to carve a holistic and robust design response.

We are commited to creating a quiet timeless architecture that celebrates the brief and the landscape.

Our studio works on various residential and commercial fit-out projects with a main focus on residential new and residential alterations additions.

Our architectural services are tailored to individual projects. Generally, they encapsulate design and documentation, permit approval, construction management, and furnishing.

Awards

Architeam Awards 2023 Residential Alterations Additions up to $500K Category Winner.

Dulux Colour Awards 2023 Residential Interior Finalist.

Architeam Awards 2022 Residential New up to $1M Category Commendation.

Architeam Awards 2022 People’s Choice Award Winner.

Australia Institute of Architects Architecture Awards 2018 Victoria Small Project Architecture Commendation.

Architeam Awards 2018 Residential Alterations and Additions Finalist.

Architeam Awards 2018 Unbuilt Commendation.

Houses Awards 2017 House in a Heritage Context Shortlist.

Houses Awards 2017 House Alteration and Addition Under 200sqm.

Architeam Awards 2016 Residential Alterations Finalist.

Architeam Awards 2015 Residential Alterations Commendation.

Houses Awards 2015 Emerging Architectural Practice Shortlist.

Houses Awards 2015 House Alteration and Addition Shortlist.

Australia Interior Design Awards 2015 Residential Design Shortlist.

WILSON is a registered architect. He completed his Master of Architecture degree in 2008 at the University of Melbourne. Prior to establishing Sonelo, he spent nine years honing his design skills at Inarc Architects, a well-regarded architectural and interior practice. Wilson has also taught in design studios and construction subjects at the University of Melbourne.

Wilson is an assuring voice of spatial planning and problem solving in complex architectural design. His calm demeanour as a listener and analyser is the key to design success in each bespoke projects Sonelo has taken on. Within this personality he leads and nurtures his students and team by provoking a highly detailed thought process from inception of design to project procurement.

In his spare time Wilson gets his hand and heart cooking delicious food to share and his legs pedalling the road bike. You might sometimes bump into him in bushwalking trails or design seminars and galleries too!

ELODIE completed her Master of Architecture at the University of Melbourne in 2010. She spent part of her architectural studies at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan). Elodie is a registered architect and has experience working with bespoke single, multi-residential as well as institutional practices.

Taking a broad interest from intimate interior to engaging with urban context, Elodie explores the relationships between inhabitants and their landscape, family, and community. Her extensive exposure to Japanese aesthetic concepts such as Iki, Wabi-sabi and Shibui imparts a layered, restrained beauty in the projects. Her curious and spirited personality adds delight to the journey of designing and building.

Elodie enjoys reading, gardening, tea and Chinese calligraphy in her quiet time.