Date: 2003
Project Team: Professor Bev Sandalack and Andrei Nicolai
with student assistants Julio Marce Santa and Jinwei Zhang
Client: The Town of High River
Awards: Regional Merit Award, Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards Program
Date: 2002
Project Team: Professor Bev Sandalack and Andrei Nicolai
with student assistants Gian-Carlo Carra, Julio Marce-Santa, Jinwei Zhang
Client: Cliff Bungalow-Mission Community Association, with funding from the Calgary Foundation Neighbourhood Grants Program
Awards: National Merit Award, Regional Honour Award, Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards Program
Date: 2002
Design Team: Professor Bev Sandalack and Andrei Nicolai
with student assistants Gian-Carlo Carra, Jinwei Zhang and Peng Peng
Client: The Calgary Cultural District Partnership
Awards: Regional Citation Award, Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards Program
Date: 2002
Project team: Project Leaders/Coordinators: Will Pearce, Town of Okotoks, Professor Mary-Ellen Tyler and Professor Emeritus William T. Perks
Urban Design and Planning: Professor Emeritus William T. Perks and Professor Robert Kirby
Ecological Infrastructure & Habitat Design: Professor Mary-Ellen Tyler and Mike Tocher
Streets and Streetscape Design: Roger Carefoot and Mike Tocher, Professor Emeritus William T. Perks, Professor Mary-Ellen Tyler
Housing Market Research: Terry Brooke, Professor Emeritus William T. Perks, Adrienne Parsons, Carmen Bohn, Martina Sherrington
Housing Concepts & Design: Professor John Brown, Kurt Esperson-Peters, Felicia Vanbeselaera, Professor Robert Kirby, Adjunct Professor Jeremy Strugess, Derek Irland, Chad Zyla
Consumer Receptivity Testing Survey & Quetionnaire: Professor Emeritus William T. Perks, Andrea Wilton-Clark, Terry Brooke, Kelly Skeith, Eric Kowalski, Adrienne Parsons, Rebecca Rempel, David Van Vliet, Professor Mary-Ellen Tyler
Graphic Production: Kishan Gajjar, Peng Peng, Jinwei Zhang, Michael Tocher, Xia Zhang, Professor Emeritus William T. Perks, Professor Robert Kirby
Client and funding: Town of Okotoks, TransAlta, Faculty of Environmental Design, CMHC, Prominence Realty
Date: 1998
Project Team: Bev Sandalack and Andrei Nicolai
Client: Downtown Halifax Business Commission, with funding from Downtown Halifax Business Commission and the Greater Halifax Partnership.
Awards: National Honour Award and Regional Honour Award, The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards Program.
Date: 1990
Project team: Professor Robert Kirby, Andrei Nicolai and Greg Chamberlain.
Date: 1982
Project team: Planning Research, Urban Design: Professor William T. Perks, Andrea Wilton-Clark
Collaborators, Exhibition Design: Professor Robert Kirby, Guang Xian Chen
Research and Exhibition Assistance: Finn Spanggaard, David Van Vliet, Ben Lee
Clients and Funding: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, The Faculty of Environmental Design, The Bob Blair Gift to Environmental Design
Computer modeling is a valuable tool that can be utilized in several stages of the design process, including visual analysis, massing and density studies, comparative analyses, testing and evaluation of design alternatives, and visualization of concepts. The following examples illustrate the use of computer modeling at various scales ranging from the city, to the neighbourhood, to the block, to the building.
