Rafael Aycinena Arquitectos is an urban and architecture design office established in Guatemala City. It designs simple comercial, residential and mixed use projects that reflect the unique site qualities, the work and lifestyle of the user and values of local life.
The design process is idea-driven, collaborative and sensible to the understanding of the tangible and intangible dimensions of the site. The results are projects that celebrate permanence, beauty, harmony and function.
The practice is the result of more than seven years of experience in two US based architecture offices that focused on religious and historic preservation projects and thirteen years of collaborative work in Urbanistica-Public Space Workshop of Municipalidad de Guatemala that focused in human scale public space projects.