Housing

Combining award-winning creativity with over 60 years of experience of successful placemaking and maximizing value, Torti Gallas and Partners has unparalleled capabilities in the design of mixed-use environments. We have designed and implemented through construction over 5 million square feet of mixed-use retail/commercial in both downtown urban infill/refill and freshly-born, authentic, lifestyle locales.

Working with our Developer Partners, we provide strategic advisory to achieve the right tenant mix and adjacencies, and to promote compatibility in order to enhance economic performance. We understand the ground plane of mixed-use environments from the perspective of the developer, the tenant and the consumer, and therefore carefully plan the merchandising mix and related open spaces to achieve a “high value“ balance between the retail, entertainment and restaurant tenants, while successfully integrating an appropriate mix of office uses, public uses, and residents.

In the last century, office buildings have become symbols of economic and financial progress and have literally created city skylines around the world. They are a metric by which employment patterns and changes in the economy are measured. To achieve this desired impact, Torti Gallas utilizes an integrated project approach that includes researching existing buildings, understanding the requirements of the building users, and relating these requirements to a functional and desirable design.

With a firm-wide commitment to designs that yield environmental, economic, and human sustainability, TG+P identifies beneficial and feasible development options that integrate sustainable horizontal and vertical construction strategies. Our designs create high-performance, energy-efficient buildings that offer owners and tenants increased user satisfaction and productivity and greater flexibility. We also employ cost-control techniques that provide us with current cost/benefit options with life-cycle cost input.

More than 60 years of design leadership in the residential market makes Torti Gallas unique among planning and design firms. Our numerous national, regional, and local awards for the design of residential and mixed-use communities attest to our understanding of the relationship of the building form to its community, as well as our focused expertise in meeting the targeted needs of each unique architectural commission.

TG+P’s expertise includes the design of carefully crafted infill housing solutions in a mixed-use context. Torti Gallas understands the challenges and opportunities inherent in the design and construction of infill housing. We create infill communities that feel as though they have always been there—making a seamless and complementary intervention of new with existing buildings. Our proven ability to leverage the new with the existing has consistently resulted in exponential increases in the value of the overall development for our clients.

TG+P’s designs for our hotel and resort clients create unique getaway experiences. These distinctive places offer luxuries and amenities, inside and out, to pamper guests and ensure memorable experiences. The master plans and lodgings in our designs are all about relaxation and convenience. Active and passive uses are incorporated in resort destinations to leverage the natural beauty of each unique location. Our goal is to make each guest feel as though the resort’s facilities have always been there and that the visitor is part of a larger, more expansive plan for life. In designing the placement of the lodgings, the built facilities, or the layout of the grounds and activity spaces, we seek to maximize the beauty and ease-of-use of each of our resort designs.

Every community needs a core, a place where neighbors can come together in the “community living room.” Such facilities offer countless benefits to residents and serve as an affordable place for people to exercise, enjoy nature, and spend time with their family and friends.

Community facilities designed by Torti Gallas often incorporate sustainable design and materials in order to obtain LEED Certifications. Ranging from a cozy 3,000 square feet to a generous 12,000 square feet, these buildings provide a host of amenities for neighborhood residents, including a neighborhood living room (great room), business centers, fitness centers, game rooms, and children’s rooms. In addition, most of the community facilities have an outdoor swimming pool, outdoor living areas, generously landscaped open areas, and ample outdoor recreational facilities, including basketball and volleyball courts. The buildings’ common areas provide families, neighbors, and community groups a place to meet and interact, creating a modern version of the Town Hall.

We are committed to repairing the mistakes of 50 years of automobile oriented development that has overseen the degradation of the public realm and sponsored the dual problems of urban divestment and suburban sprawl. We see a great deal of opportunity in the city through infill development that creates value and takes advantage of existing infrastructure; and likewise great opportunity in the suburbs, by making walkable places that nurture civic life and that bring amenities that provide convenience and occasion for placemaking.

We believe that our communities should be conceived to support and nurture healthy lives. Comfortable walkability and the integration of active recreation opportunities are the two greatest aspects of healthy neighborhoods. Neighborhood medical clinics can be gracefully incorporated within neighborhoods in storefront locations. The areas surrounding larger medical facilities are often deserts of surface parking and land targeted for expansion. We seek to create Mixed Use Medical Districts that can be lively, vibrant areas that support the healthcare mission of the institution, and attract the talent necessary for their success.

Our Campus and College Town work focusses primarily on student housing and faculty and graduate student housing neighborhoods. We seek to create market rate quality neighborhoods in what is often an affordable context. Comfort and character, amenity, affordability, relationships to the existing campus and larger context, and the ease of walking to and from the campus are the main issues for the projects.

Our resort community work seeks to offer the resident and visitor an authentic, memorable, and comfortable experience. The quality of the experience drives the focus on these key conceptual design issues; character and authenticity, comfort and amenity, Placemaking and programming, and incorporating the existing natural systems into the community.

We believe that a home and, by extension, a neighborhood, is not a commodity but a force that shapes the lives of the residents and their visitors.  The neighborhood where one lives is very probably the most important environment in the world for that person. The neighborhood therefore is an aspirational construct and shaping a healthy, beautiful, comfortable, and convenient place for quality family life and neighborly interaction, both formal and informal is the goal of our efforts.