Rassel Catapang is a Filipino architect and content creator. He is currently best known for his loft-type tiny house design videos across social media platforms but gained prominence on YouTube for his loft bed design ideas for small rooms during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
Born and raised in Davao City, Philippines, Catapang was a consistent honor student from Kindergarten to High School and graduated as Class Salutatorian from Pablo Lorenzo National High School. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Architecture at the University of Mindanao (UM) from 2006 to 2012. He was an academic scholar of the university and a member of its Student's Training Assistance Program (STAP) wherein he worked at the university's Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Laboratories as a Student Assistant (SA) or Working Student for a 100% tuition fee discount. Throughout his college years, he worked there in the morning from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM and had his classes in the afternoon and evening. As a college student, he also worked as an Online Article Writer for Canadian company Online Advertising Services Corporation to earn money for his personal allowance and project expenses from 2010 to 2013. His parents and elder sister also financially supported his studies.
Catapang worked as an apprentice at EM Bacus Construction and Electrical Supply from January 2013 to April 2015. In order to gain experience in real estate, he decided to move to Uraya Land Development, Inc. and worked there as a draftsman from May 2015 to August 2018. Seven years after his graduation from college, he finally decided to take the Architect Licensure Exam (ALE) in January 2019. With an average score of 81.10%, he was 0.4 point away from the Top 10. After obtaining the license, he became a part of MAC Builders Davao in February 2019 and worked there as the Head of the Special Projects Section until February 2020. He went to Dubai in 2020 to seek greener pastures but unfortunately, a few weeks after his arrival there, the coronavirus started spreading across different countries. He was able to work in Dubai as an architect at DAT Engineering Consultancy for only a week. After his 5-month stay in Dubai, he decided to return to the Philippines. He was hired again by his former employer Uraya Land where he worked for only three months because he decided to become a freelance architect and focus on social media content creation.
Being a content creator opens several opportunities for him including design projects in America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
As of October 2025, Catapang has 243K subscribers and 50 million views on YouTube, 200K followers on Facebook, and 104K followers and 1.6 million likes on TikTok. Many of his videos gained millions of views. The following is a list of links to his social media pages:
