Who we are
For each project, we compose a team of specialists that share a TND knowledge and experience base. Specialist in delineating the market, urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, transportation, engineering, retail, sustainability, financing, sales, legal issues, and politics are all brought together to weave their disciplines through the whole project, to avoid a disconnect in both quality and potential from the initial vision as the project moves from inception to completion.
Principal & Project Lead:
Andrew Martschenko
- Originates projects
- Manages the pre-charrette tasks
- Assembles, Directs and Coordinates the charrette teams
- Leads and provides direction to the urban planning and architectural design efforts
- Liaison with the clients and local consultants
- Coordinates and delivers in progress and final presentations
- Disseminates and coordinates the ongoing post charrette urban design and architecture work
Urban Designers:
- Apply TND principles to develop design solutions specific to the site’s location and constraints, public input and the local market during the Urban Design Charrette and follow up work
Architects and Residential Designers:
- Develop building types appropriate to the project. Initially these tunes are used to both define the different public spaces being considered and to determine which lot sizes and orientation can be incorporated into the planning stages. These building types are then further refined in architectural charrettes.
Landscape Architect:
- Adds depth, expertise, and objective input, designing spatial types first, further developing the range of public spaces and then using site specific vegetation to add another layer to the urban design
Transportation Engineer:
- Work with the local Transportation Engineer and Municipal Officials to assure that both the road system and the road types being proposed in the master plan are viable and accepted, and
- Provide and substantiate viable alternatives to conventional design methodologies pre, during and post the design process
Civil Engineer:
- Work with the local Civil Engineer and Municipal Officials to assure that both the stormwater management solution and servicing systems are viable and accepted, and
- Provide and substantiate viable alternatives to conventional design methodologies pre, during and post the design process
Environmental Expert:
- Provide advice on viability and sustainability of the proposal relating to the site and environmental restrictions and opportunities
- Provide viable alternatives to conventional methodologies during design process
Smart Code Expert:
- Create the written documents that embed and enable the design precepts intent into written zoning ordinances
Retail Expert:
- Provide empirical data to support and direct the retail component of the project by examining and tabulating both the existing and latent markets
- Provide advice on financial viability and makeup of the size, type and mix of the retail components,
Renderer:
- Provides images that succinctly convey the ideas, concepts and character endemic to the design in a visual language understood by all
3D Modeller:
- Create digital 3D models of public spaces, both generic and site specific, feeding the Renderer with rudimentary perspectival views to build on
- Establish a library of residential 3D building types that work well with TND principles, and details that reflect local materials and building methods
- Develop rudimentary models of the project site and individual buildings
Charrette Coordinator:
- Coordinate all the resources and expertise to converge to one place, and then follow up with all to assure that all responsibilities are carried out
- Manage all the tasks involved in pre, during and post charrette tasks
- Arrange all travel and accommodation bookings
