Founded in 1986 as Dominy + Associates Architects, domusstudio architecture specializes in sacred facilities, fire stations, educational buildings, senior housing, and custom residential design from a Third Avenue studio in Hillcrest on the edge of Maple Canyon. LEED Gold-certified work includes the 25,866-square-foot Patrick Wade Child Development Center in Point Loma, a Navy design-build project delivered with T.B. Penick & Sons — institutional-scale programming comparable to the laboratory-planning specialty of Research Facilities Design. Sacred-facility work spans St. Therese of Carmel Catholic Church in San Diego and multi-phase master planning for Solana Beach Presbyterian Church's expanded preschool and campus. San Diego Unified School District modernizations funded in part by Proposition S have covered ADA-accessibility upgrades, electrical replacement, theater audio-visual rebuilds at the Florence Johnson Grand Theater, and new secured entries — scopes requiring construction partners such as Calderon Builders Inc. The firm's most complex delivery to date is a 17-classroom Navy Child Development Center under construction at Camp Pendleton with security-vetted classroom visibility, integrated reception and administrative wings, low-water landscaping with smart-controller irrigation, and over 80 percent of construction debris diverted to recycling.