Sara Rahali

Growing up in Morocco, long before I ever drafted a building, I was reading cities. The medinas of Fez and Rabat—with streets shaped by centuries of human habit and materials worn into honesty by time—taught me early on that architecture is never about buildings in isolation. It is about people, neighbourhoods, and the stories embedded within a place.

This instinct is what drew me to SEW, a place where I feel at home between scales, between disciplines, and between the detail and the city.

I hold a Master of Architecture from UCA Canterbury, where I was awarded the RIBA South East Postgraduate Student Prize. My thesis explored zero-carbon, multigenerational housing using hempcrete, rooted in the philosophy that every decision—from structural design to spatial flow—must centre on the people who inhabit it.

Outside of architecture, I've never stayed in one lane. My interests span art, music, sport, and making things with my hands, and I think that breadth finds its way into everything I design.