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Our Mission

SUN Studio is an award winning design firm specializing in sustainable urban neighborhoods. We provide full spectrum planning and design services, from the scale of the community to the scale of the home. We pride ourselves on our ability to listen to our clients to achieve their sustainable project goals and work effectively with jurisdictional staff and consultants to gain entitlements, permitting, and coordinate detailing and construction.

Our Services

Architecture 

Managing the Entitlement Process

Urban Design & Planning 

Development Coordination

Landscape Architecture 

Consultant Management

Who We Are

Michael, David, and Alex started working as one firm in 2014 after more than two decades of collaboration. Now they're making the partnership official as SUN Studio. Their projects have been the recipients of dozens of regional and national awards.
Michael Tavel, AIA
Michael Tavel, AIA

Principal

Michael received a Masters of Architecture from UC Berkeley with numerous honors and is nationally recognized for climate-responsive, sustainable urban neighborhood design and architecture. Michael worked for Christopher Alexander and Mark Mack in California before he and David moved to teach at UC Denver in the early 1990s. Michael and David created a summer urban design program in Prague on behalf of UC Denver which they taught until 2000. Michael met Alex in 1994 when they worked together at Hoover Berg Desmond Architects in Denver. Michael is on the faculty of the Program in Environmental Design at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Michael’s CV

David Kahn, ASLA
David Kahn, ASLA

Principal

David received his Masters of Architecture and Masters of Landscape Architecture with numerous honors from UC Berkeley. He is nationally recognized for sustainable urban neighborhood design and the integration of stormwater into urban landscapes. His Geos Net-Zero Energy Neighborhood with Michael Tavel won a 2009 National Honor Award for Analysis and Planning from the American Society of Landscape Architects. David is on the faculty of the Program in Environmental Design at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

David’s CV

 

Alex Platt, AIA
Alex Platt, AIA

Principal

Alex received his Masters of Architecture from UCLA and worked for Frank Gehry in Santa Monica, and Hoover Berg Desmond and Anderson Mason Dale in Denver, before founding the design/build/development firm of Randall Platt in 1999. He completed the Prospect Studios Live/Work townhomes in Prospect New Town in Longmont from 2001-2004. With Michael and David he led the creation of the award-winning, residential mixed-use project Solar Village at Prospect New Town which was completed in 2006. He went on to cofound Solar Village Homes, a line of sustainable, solar modular prefab houses, and Alex Platt Architecture, before partnering with Michael and David in 2014.

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