Community architecture is program-rich and forms a meaningful part of the communities we live in. Community architecture includes schools, churches, townhouses, community centers, social housing, non-profit organizations, and other specialty projects. VIA's design of community facilities grows out of our deep understanding of community planning, context and process. It's not about the building, it's about the building in its context.

This is where mathematics and poetry come together - in larger scale highrise residential and mixed-use projects. VIA's skills in this area are our abilities to visualize and our overall urbanist approach to city-making. Good mixed-use projects often occur at the junction between planning principles and transit design. Forms grow out of context and economics, and provide the answer to the rhetorical question of "What time is this place?" These buildings are closely related to and are the natural outgrowth of transportation planning thought processes.

Infrastructure Architecture is the design of major facilities in an urban context, and also includes technically demanding civil and public works projects. VIA brings the specific skills that add experiential quality to large projects traditionally led by engineers. VIA designs these building types in context - "Damn, we're in a tight spot", as the saying goes.

We have completed many transportation projects and have an extremely deep portfolio and an established reputation for our work throughout North America and Asia. VIA brings the ability to visualize, communicate, and lead a project through a public process in order to inform decisionmaking and create buy-in. This is systems architecture at its best, and allows us to demonstrate our love for all levels of detail, including the industrial design of systems components.

VIA's work in this area focuses on the planning and design of boutique hospitality projects that are fun and memorable - they are about "how life could be", and experiences that add spice to everyday life. These projects can be complex technically, usually requiring extreme sensitivity in siting, and requiring skill to fully explore the relationship between land, building and sustainability as the confluence of the two.

Real Urbanism involves planning at its broadest scale, in support of urban livability. This includes development planning, urban planning and design, transit planning, as well as resort planning and sustainable design. VIA provides value to urban planning initiatives by designing process. This work is heavily based in community process, communication, visualization and requires a deep understanding of the navigation of municipal approval and review processes.