Gloryrose Dy-Metilla

Principal Architect

She graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of the Philippines in Mindanao in 2009, where she garnered the Best Thesis Award. Shortly after, she won the Red Point National Thesis Award, an exemplary undergraduate Architecture thesis award in the Philippines. In 2018, she finished the Design Summerschool from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University, Shanghai, China, and then her Masters in Urban and Cultural Heritage from the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Australia, with an Australia Awards Scholarship. In addition, she is finishing her Doctor of Philosophy in Management at the University of Mindanao.

She has been a United Architects of the Philippines North Davao Chapter President 2015 – 2016, Balangkasan Chair for Area D in 2016, Editor of the Area D Committee of UAP Journal under the Commission on Professional Development 2019 -2020, and a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites or ICOMOS and an expert committee member of the International Committee on Vernacular Architecture.

She worked as a technical officer for TAO Pilipinas Inc and then as a Design officer for SM Engineering and Design. She has also worked in heritage architecture fields in Melbourne under Quadratum Architecture and the Design Proposal for the Rehabilitation of Circum-Taihu Lake Heritage, China, a government competition.

Currently, she is the principal architect of Swito Designs Inc. A studio is focused on Cultural Sensitivity in Design and Urban and Cultural Heritage. The firm is working on the Department of Tourism Region XI Cultural Complex, Bangsamoro Ministry of Interior and Local Government, Ministry of Trade, Investment and Tourism Infrastructure Projects, and international projects. She is also the current Eastern Mindanao Representative of the National Commission for Architect and Allied Arts of the National Commission for Culture and Arts.

The Team Members

Jenelle Metilla

Jenelle Metilla

Junior Designer

Jenelle Metilla is a Graduate Architect. She finished his Bachelor of Science from the Technological Institute of the Philippines.

Don Dion Cawaling

Don Dion Cawaling

Junior Designer

Don Dion Cawaling is an architecture student of the University of Mindanao.

Larielyn Balacuit

Larielyn Balacuit

Administration Assistant

Lar is a psychology major. She is passionate about human resource management and child psychology.