Raphael Architects is an award-winning architecture design firm serving residential clients throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. We organize our clients’ desires, financial capabilities, and construction requirements into pragmatically and poetically designed, sustainable houses.

Raphael Architects’ clients benefit from an ordered design and construction process that includes the following services:

• Project budget management – to maintain control of costs and schedules
• Existing conditions documentation – to minimize surprises leading to cost and time overruns during construction  
• Architectural design – to develop a budget-conscious energy-efficient house design that creates appropriate massing, interior space, finishes and systems to integrate architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical and lighting
• Product selection analysis – to deliver the desired budget-respectful solution for building systems, equipment, finishes and fixtures
• Sustainable design – to incorporate eco-friendly construction techniques, systems and products to help reduce a home’s impact on the environment  
• Construction documentation –to prepare house plans to receive a building permit
• Detail development – to produce large scale house plans, sections and elevations and specifications to coordinate all interior design and exterior construction to eliminate allowances and reduce construction contingencies
• Municipal approvals – to navigate through local historical and architectural review board, zoning hearing boards, and sustainable design incentives programs to eliminate surprises when you apply for a building permit
• Modeling – to prepare 3D CAD models that help visualization of the house design before construction begins to avoid costly construction changes
• Bidding – to negotiate with pre-qualified contractors possessing sparkling reputations to obtain competitive pricing for the highest quality construction services
• Construction administration – to manage the construction contract from pre-construction to occupancy in order to minimize client stress
• Commissioning – to perform continual quality reviews from initial concepts to post-occupancy to verify that the house systems meet the functional and operational needs of the home owner