USGBC LEED Gold-certified architecture studio housed in a 4,500-square-foot Bacon Street office that was originally a 1955 auto-repair building, HGW Architecture occupies what was the first commercial Net Zero Energy building in the San Diego region. The studio’s mending-and-reuse design philosophy carried into its own renovation, replacing surface concrete with native landscape and pulling photovoltaic generation from a roof-mounted system tied to grid metering, the same kind of solar program installed by specialists such as Sattler Solar Inc. on residential clients. Practice spans civic, cultural, commercial, education, healthcare, hospitality, interior, and residential project types, with a second studio location in San Luis Obispo serving Central Coast work. Site design favors permeable surfaces and California-native plant palettes that complement the reuse strategy, often working with specifications from native-plant designers like Plants Comprehensive / SoCaL Nativescapes. The most demanding projects combine adaptive reuse of existing commercial structures with on-site renewable energy generation, achieving Net Zero performance through daylighting, natural cooling and ventilation strategies in addition to electrical generation tied directly to building load profiles.