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RSAAW Principal, Rafael Santa Ana featured as a guest speaker on Build Magazine’s podcast ‘Friends of Build Magazine’. Rafael spoke with podcast host, Ted about his journey from Mexico City to Canada. Discussing the cultural influences that shaped his architectural perspective. Listen to Rafael’s episode #111 ‘Innovating Through Tradition: Architectural Philosophy from Mexico to Canada […]
Reside
RSAAW is honoured to have the Berkley Residence project selected among such powerhouses of design. We would like to thank Clinton Cuddington for thinking of us as worthy of inclusion in this book, written by Dr. Michael Prokopow and curated by Clinton. The book features 34 beautifully designed houses exploring the ways West Coast modern […]
Western Living
“A post-and-beam home offers an architect (and family man) a chance to make a decade-long design dream a reality. This home’s meticulous planning comes as no surprise: architect and homeowner Rafael Santa Ana had a decade to think about it. Santa Ana and his partner, Megan Paris-Griffiths, are both longtime city dwellers—they made the leap […]
LOOP Design Awards
In a temperate rainforest such as British Columbia’s, the search for light is constant and inevitable. Most residential projects unequally favour certain units over others, unfairly distributing space, views, and light. Such a sacrifice is unnecessary. This Passive House mixed-use residential project provides all its residents with natural light through a labyrinth design evocative of […]