TOPIA design offers a dynamic, creative design approach that thrives on collaborative, integral design processes with the energy and passion for exceptional results.

Samuel Sherwood Cleveland, Architect specializes in the creation of custom residential and light commercial architecture which responds to our clients' needs and values. We have designed projects during the past thirty years throughout Central Virginia including Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Wintergreen and Stoney Creek, Richmond, Ashland, Fluvanna County, Shenandoah Valley, and Amherst. We offer creativity, experience, and judgment for the design of architecture which is respectful of it's setting, is technologically sound, and environmentally responsible. We have an appreciation and respect for the past, we are well informed about the technology of today, and we design for the beneficial use of structures for the present and the future.

We believe sustaining architecture springs from a deep understanding of the place, the needs of the project and the desires of our client's merged with an ecological, cultural and aesthetic intelligence. Founded in 2004, Hays + Ewing Design Studio has focused on the careful integration of buildings with their environment. This focus operates at several levels -- in harmonizing buildings with their surroundings, and in the integration of building and natural systems, such as cooling through natural ventilation, rainwater collection, and harnessing energy from the sun. The breadth of the project types and scales, is evidence of our ability to tackle diverse projects and places with a clear vision specific to each. Over the years, we have worked on a variety of types of projects including a

Contact us at (888) 673-5972 in Charlottesville, VA, to hire a competent structural engineer.