Based in Vancouver, RA\\W Design Group is a design-led enterprise with integrated interior design-build and real estate development undertakings. Our design process unfold within spatial and financial parameters, speaking to feasibility, resilience and unparalleled taste. In a market where immediate capital gains always seem to outweigh social and ecological considerations, we are committed to equitable and sustainable solutions through creative optimism. When designing for the interiors is often tasked with the creation of exclusivity, we aim to address inclusion. We work hard to stay inspired and work even harder to inspire others, redefining affordable and attainable ways, forward. 

While ‘excellence in design’ is fundamental to us, it is our distinct take on the ‘execution of design’ that truly elevates our approach. Such design-led approach brings both delight and certainty to the project experience by allowing us to manage risks with optimized design certainty. Our development practice especially, is leveraged by such design-led advantage —exercising a vertically integrated process across scale for housing production. We approach dwellings as the smallest building blocks of the urban fabric —pivoting on the spatial economics of the internal life.

Ultimately, we believe the urban experience is intimately entwined with the interiority of our built environment. The highly granular and interdisciplinary nature in our design expertise, met with the ability to realize such designs, position our enterprise to solve complex problems with grounding. Our endeavour in manufacturing inhabited spaces within which occupants spend a majority of their time, become both relevant and critical in addressing social equity, climate justice and other emerging urgencies of our time.

Allyse Y. LI
NCIDQ RID. Founder, Principal Interior & Urban Designer, Researcher