At COOOP Design Agency, our team of creative thinkers and skilled professionals brings your vision to life. With expertise across design disciplines, we collaborate to deliver innovative, tailored solutions. Driven by passion and excellence, we push boundaries to exceed expectations, creating impactful experiences that elevate brands.
Team
Meet the core team members of COOOP.
Principal & Creative Director
Australia
Callie van der Merwe
Callie began his career as an Architect in the early 1990’s before changing over to Interior Architecture in the early 2000’s. Since then, he has completed multiple award winning and successful commercial interior spaces all over the world with a signature philosophical approach of design for predictive behaviour.
Nominated Architect: Callie van der Merwe, NSW Architects Registration Number: 11896
Senior Associate
Calvin Janse van Vuuren
Calvin Janse van Vuuren is a hospitality-focused interior designer with over a decade of experience shaping restaurants, cafés, and commercial spaces across Australia and internationally. His work sits at the intersection of culture, human behaviour, and environment where design is not the starting point, but the considered response to deeply understood problems. Through immersive research, storytelling, and environmental thinking, Calvin creates spaces that offer meaning, connection, and respite.
Senior Associate
Roberto Zambri
Roberto's approach offers a considered and skillful blend of art and design to create engaging and holistic interior spaces.
His designs are based on a strong individual character of minimalism with a skillful blend of specific to region culture and arts, resulting in rich transcendent engaging spaces.
Brand and UX/UI Director Netherlands
Ricardo Rocha
Ricardo Rocha is a brand and UI/UX designer focused on bridging brand promise with user-centered design. He combines strategy, insights, and innovative tools to create seamless experiences that align business goals with user needs, ensuring impactful and effective design solutions.
Design Technician
Monique Steenkamp
Monique has over a decade of expertise in producing technical documentation of the highest standard in both Architecture and Interior Design, Monique has a keen eye for detail, process-oriented mindset, and is highly skilled in the BIM ecosystem ensure precision and innovation in every project. She’s the backbone of our technical excellence.
Design Developer
Andrew Bouwer
Andrew is a Design Developer at COOOP who brings clarity and precision to the design process. With a strong focus on digital development and technical coordination, he translates conceptual ideas into resolved, build-ready solutions ensuring each project maintains its integrity from vision through to delivery.