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T-Six Urbanists is a creative design company with a core competency in urban design and town planning. Based in Calgary, Alberta we practice throughout North America as experts in sustainable urbanism and the design of walkable, compact, mixed-use places. Our clients include municipalities, developers, planning and engineering firms, and architects. We are a principled firm that delivers value to our clients with solutions built on time-tested principles, progressive design, and pragmatic implementation techniques.
Background
T-Six Principal Geoff Dyer has operated as an independent urban design consultant within Western Canada and throughout North America. He has worked with world renowned designers such as Leon Krier, Andres Duany, and Randall Arendt. Starting in early 2004 Geoff was co-principal and co-founder of Civic Design Group. Civic Design Group was a small but accomplished design firm and Calgary’s first firm with its core competency centred on urban design. Building from this legacy following the dissolution of Civic Design Group in late 2006, T-Six Urbanists was formed and became a full service design studio focused on urban design and town planning.
Geoff is also a Director in the U.S. based firm Placemakers LLC. Placemakers is a multifaceted planning and implementation firm that has been providing planning, coding, implementation and marketing to both private and public clients in the U.S. for the past five years. Through this relationship T-Six contributes its abilities to international level projects and, in turn, is able to convey its broad experience and highly skilled network of professionals to local western Canadian projects.
Our integrated studio employs skilled practitioners who are trained specifically in urban design and town planning. We are committed to a high quality design product commensurate with international level expertise.
As the recipients of two awards: Charter Award 2004, Congress for the New Urbanism (International Avenue Design Initiative); and the Arthur Ross Award 2006, Institute of Classical Architecture (Mississippi Renewal Forum); T-Six is becoming recognized as Calgary’s leading proponent of sustainable urbanism and the promotion of viable alternatives to conventional suburban development.
Expertise
At the core of our practice is the conception of the compact, walkable, mixed use neighbourhood. From high-density core neighbourhoods to rural hamlets and towns, our innovation comes from an intense and constant study of time-tested urbanism throughout the world.
Our expertise includes:
- The design of sustainable communities supported by the LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) rating system;
- The design of resort villages and hill towns that build value through the creation of “Place”
- The use of Smart Growth and New Urbanism principles as the foundation for the design of new communities (TND), the redevelopment of brownfield sites, detailed design of infill sites, and the re-urbanism of suburban greyfields
- The design of Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
- The restructuring of rural and urban settlements through sound regional planning and rural village design
- The use of form-based codes, SmartCode calibrations, and the reform of single-use zoning codes to reestablish sustainable urbanism by-right
- Detailed urban design at the scale of the block, street, and building, particularly for mixed-use centers, and high-mid density projects.
- The facilitation of project design and implementation through a the multi-day charrette process. We are a certified charrette planners from the NCI.
Our roles in these projects include:
- Comprehensive physical design and master-planning
- Facilitation and management of the public design and approvals process, including charrettes and workshops
- Planning policy and approvals
- Comprehensive planning and master plan documents
- Design & communication of project aesthetics and character
- Director of Design: Management of project vision and design supervision of project consultants on behalf of developer.
- Project visualization and illustration
- Detailed drafting and vehicle-movement simulation
- Ongoning project implementation & detail design
- Building Design
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