Architecture · Design-build · DMV region
The pursuit
of light.
A collective of architects, builders and designers shaping spaces filled with light and crafted with care: custom homes, additions, renovations and select commercial work.
We begin with the sun.
Five guiding lights shape every project.
Featured work
Built to hold the light.
A selection from the studio's own project photography, homes, workplaces and retail across the DMV.
Private residence & pool
Custom home · Architecture + landscape
Home studio
Interior architecture · Millwork
Penthouse living room
Interiors · Custom furniture
Transforma, retail fit-out
Select commercial · Design-build
Sales gallery
Select commercial · Interiors
Client lounge
Interior architecture · Lighting
The light behind the work
Five guiding lights.
They shape how the studio thinks, collaborates and creates, the foundation of the work and the reason its spaces feel the way they do.
01
Natural light
We begin with the sun, architecture that follows its rhythm and draws the outdoors in.
02
Crafted light
Materials and details chosen for how they hold, bend and soften the light.
03
Reflective light
Surfaces that carry brightness deeper into the plan than windows alone can.
04
Inner light
Rooms that feel calm to be in, wellbeing as a design requirement.
05
Collective light
Architects, builders and designers working as one team, one contract.
Design-build
One team, from first sketch to keys.
Architects, builders and designers under one roof and one contract, no hand-offs, no finger-pointing, one point of responsibility for design, budget and schedule.
Custom homes
Ground-up houses designed and built by the same hands, start to finish.
Additions & renovations
More room and more light inside the home you already love.
Select commercial
Retail, galleries and workplaces that carry a brand into space.
The studio
Adams Morgan, at street level.
Cacao Studio
Washington, DC
Address
1763 Columbia Rd NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20009
Serving the DMV region