Melissa
Mak
Melissa Mak is a senior lighting designer within Arup’s London Lighting Studio. She has a Master’s degree in architectural lighting at University College London. To her, light is an indispensable design ingredient and has a magic to transcend the environment to a different dimension and perception.
Melissa has completed many international lighting design projects across a wide range of business sectors; commercial buildings, education buildings, landscape, public realm and lighting master planning. Projects including The Shard in London, London Bridge Quarter, Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge, Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, Doha. Apart from this, Melissa also plays an active role in fostering creative design culture within the lighting team in Arup.
She is passionate about nature and fascinated by the design of creation. She often draws inspiration from it to fuel her design creativity. She has taken a diploma course at Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in London focused on Plant Growth and Development. This has provided her a better understanding of the relationship between plants and light. Melissa strongly believes that designer has an important role to play to shape a better environment- with the aim to achieving harmony and symbiosis of man and nature.