Net-zero home in Sonoma County at dusk, with the pool lit and the valley beyond

Residential · Custom homes · Net-zero · Age in place

Homes that fit the way you live, and where you live.

We listen first, learning how your days unfold, then design houses full of light, comfort and quiet confidence. Our work ranges from Frank Lloyd Wright’s final residential design to a net-zero home in Sonoma and an oceanside house in the Philippines.

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Net-Zero HomeSonoma County, California
Produces more energy than it uses

  • AIA Merit AwardRiver Rock, 2025
  • Net-zero, and then someSonoma home produces a surplus
  • Three continentsOhio, the Andes, the Philippines
  • 270°Andes panorama, Medellín

We start by listening. The drawing comes later.

How do you like to start the morning? Where does everyone end up at a party? Who comes to stay, and for how long? The answers shape the plan long before we think about style.

Then we add what makes a house last: good daylight, a strong connection to the landscape, careful detailing, and energy performance that keeps it comfortable for decades.

  • Modern
  • Transitional
  • Traditional
  • Net-zero
  • Age in place
  • Permaculture
The Cebu Island residence seen from the garden on the ocean sideFeatured home · Cebu Island, Philippines
Oceanside · Cebu Island, Philippines

A call from halfway around the world.

A couple on Cebu Island had followed our work on social media for years before they called. Their wish list included a double-height living room, a formal kitchen and a working “dirty kitchen,” two home offices, a gym in the upstairs gallery, a guest room and even a photo studio.

We planned the house in metric units and supervised construction on site. Triple-glazed European windows, an EIFS stucco system and whole-house ventilation with dehumidification keep the tropical heat outside, and a 21 kW solar array supplies much of the energy.

The island lies on the “Ring of Fire,” so the structure was upgraded for earthquakes and for typhoons.

Location
Cebu Island, Philippines
Energy
21 kW solar · triple glazing
Structure
Earthquake & typhoon upgrades
Our role
Design + on-site supervision
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Living room opening onto the terrace and the ocean
From the living room straight to the ocean.
Double-height living room with the upstairs gallery
Double-height living room
The design and construction team on site in Cebu
The team on site

Selected homes

Eight houses, each shaped for its owners.

Choose a home to see its story, plans and photos.

Corner glazing at River Rock meeting the ceiling, as Frank Lloyd Wright drew it

Detail · River Rock

Wright’s windows, rebuilt for today’s energy code.

Wright drew single-pane glass. Today’s energy codes required insulated double-pane units, so we routed the frames deeper to hide the spacer between the panes and kept the ⅜″ exterior glazing stop that gives his windows their shadow line.

We also reworked the joint where glass meets ceiling so the room still seems to flow out into the landscape, the way he intended. Quadriga’s Joe Myers and Rob Shearer led the work, and the project appears in the HBO Max documentary “The Last Wright.”

Recognition
AIA Merit Award 2025
Glazing
Single → double pane
On screen
“The Last Wright”

Comfort you feel. Performance you don’t.

Sustainability is built into the design from the start: orientation, shading, glazing and water are part of the plan, not add-ons.

The glass facade of the Sonoma net-zero home

Energy · Sonoma

A house that gives back.

Super-insulated walls, passive and active solar design, and triple-glazed windows. With a generous solar array, the home produces more energy than it uses.

Louvers shading the windows of the Medellín home

Shade · Medellín

Keep the sun off the glass.

Louvers provide passive solar shading and cut heat gain, so the views stay open while the need for air conditioning drops.

Corten steel rainwater basin at the Cleveland home

Water · Cleveland

Rain that stays on site.

Flat roofs collect rainwater into an open corten steel basin. From there it trickles into an infiltration bed, so the house relies less on the storm sewer.

How we design a home with you.

The same small team works with you from the first conversation to the day you move in, wherever your site is.

  1. Listen

    How you live, gather and retreat. The wish list, the budget and the things you haven’t said yet.

  2. Read the site

    Views, sun, slope, water and neighbors. The land decides a great deal before we draw a wall.

  3. Design & detail

    Plans, 3D views and material choices, then construction documents a builder can price and build.

  4. Build it right

    Construction support through move-in, on site whether you’re in Ohio or somewhere much farther away.

Start your home

Tell us how you want your days to unfold.

Email the studio (216) 343-9555

Main office

2176 S Taylor Road
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118

Willoughby office

38030 Second Street
Willoughby, OH 44094

Inquiries

info@quadriga-studio.com