1. Project uniqueness and pedagogic value in developing our students into exceptional practicing professionals;
2. Client need;
3. The project’s potential impact on society and the environment.
Although Tejido has and continues to develop projects through the construction document phase, we primarily focus on the generation of conceptual alternatives for our clients. We concentrate our efforts on developing innovative concepts through the application of research initiative. Tejido believes that designers gain insight and inspiration from a variety of sources. An essential part of our design and planning processes occurs during pre-design research, which, in this case, comprises the entire following body of work. During this phase, information garnered from a variety of sources is reviewed and incorporated into the design intentions of our teams of landscape architects, planners, and architects. Critical socio-cultural, socio-economic, environmental, functional, and image-related issues are examined in depth through hybrid qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Our designers then distill relevant design and planning implications from the analysis of the data collected. Design issues are then presented to our clients for their consideration and editorial comments. These comments are then integrated into optimum solutions that are further developed and presented in graphic, digital, and literary form. We consider these presentations a means of establishing a collaborative dialogue with our clients and their representatives. We understand the importance of client participation, and that formative feedback and thorough research designs are essential to distinctive design products. In our attempt to facilitate communication with our clients, we have developed one of the largest digital libraries of design and planning case studies in the Southwest.
Unlike associations with traditional design and planning offices, Tejido offers our clients an opportunity to afford in-depth applied research and the subsequent generation of alternative concepts prior to design development and construction documents. In “real-world” situations, the conceptual design process is often foreshortened when financial resources are strictly limited. As we are essentially a non-profit organization dedicated to the education of our students and the needs of our clients, we can afford to focus our efforts on pre-design research and schematic exploration with our clients in developing complex, yet tailored master planning solutions. We see our relationship with practicing professionals as one of project creation and not of direct competition.