Headquartered in Point Loma, Core Design Studio is a custom architecture practice delivering residential and commercial projects from concept sketches through construction-document sets. New custom homes and gut-renovation additions move from schematic design into structural coordination with general contractors like Heller Construction, keeping the architect's vision intact through framing. The studio handles commercial tenant improvements alongside its residential portfolio, producing space plans, permit-ready drawings, and construction-administration oversight for retail and office build-outs across Point Loma San Diego. Each residential project integrates site-specific orientation studies—solar exposure, prevailing ocean breezes, and view corridors—into floor-plan layouts that respond to the peninsula's coastal topography. Exterior hardscape and planting schemes developed with landscape studios such as Cleator Landscape Design San Diego extend the indoor-outdoor living concept through drought-tolerant material palettes. The practice's most demanding commissions are ground-up custom homes on steep peninsula lots, where hillside grading, retaining-wall engineering, and multi-level floor plans must satisfy both the California Building Code and the Coastal Commission's visual-resource guidelines.