New models of sustainable communities

A truly sustainable community is one that is loved and enjoyed. Our designs embrace each location and culture, support local and regional environmental health, and create compelling places for the people who use them. Our innovative, high-performance communities create new models of sustainable urbanism by adapting the successful approaches of green building design to the level of community planning. We integrate site infrastructure systems in the earliest stages of our process, resulting in communities that function like living organisms - harvesting energy from the sun, sequestering carbon, making oxygen, creating habitats, building soil, distilling water and creating beneficial microclimates. Through community design we are able to enhance the environmental potential of buildings long before they are designed. Our designs promote efficient and effective approaches to energy, water and transportation, and they seek to eliminate the concept of waste at all scales. These strategies not only support resident well-being and regenerate local and regional ecological health; they also provide the next generation of leadership to address the global challenges of climate change, carbon emission reduction and resource recovery.