Tres Birds is a full-service planning, architecture and general contracting firm based in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 2000, Tres Birds creates dynamic designs for a better world―building sustainable communities, respecting nature, and sparking innovation. Working across the disciplines of architecture, art, engineering, and science, Tres Birds’ transformative projects get to the core of what matters―beauty, timelessness and consideration of biodiversity. Without a need to proclaim a signature style, Tres Birds is free to create the best outcomes. The Tres Birds team is made up of progressive systems thinkers who create healthy and efficient spaces that reduce carbon footprints and bring joy to their inhabitants. With a belief that less is more, Tres Birds often repurposes humble regional materials leading to sustainable and affordable results. Innovative thinking results in singular solutions for multiple challenges. Projects range from mixed-use developments and corporate headquarters to net-zero energy homes, museums and city parks. Each one is designed to bring wellbeing to the people who spend time there and to the surrounding ecosystem. AN INTEGRATED TEAM For our clients who prefer it, Tres Birds can both design and build projects. Each person on the core Tres Birds team is educated in architecture and has solid construction experience. This creates nimble and seamless management across all phases of the project, eliminating overlapping costs and providing one point of contact for the client, ensuring a smooth, consolidated process from start to finish. A SUSTAINABLE APPROACH We use sustainable and reclaimed materials wherever possible, and materials are always selected for their inherent structural integrity. The advantage to sourcing local and reclaimed is that it not only reduces material costs for the client, but it lowers the overall embodied energy of the project, adding rich sustainable value. THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE Art-making is central to the architecture work of Tres Birds. We work from the belief that creativity is infinite and a necessary tool to transform any space into an inspiring place to be for building inhabitants. This view of creativity is extended to the use of materials, with the ability to reinvent discarded materials (or materials with low market value) into something new, beautiful and purposeful.