Tortoise Studio
A plan, and everything behind it.
Tortoise Studio is a planning, design and engagement practice. We research the ground, draw the plan, run the public process, and produce the documents it is decided in.
Accepting project inquiries · Independent of a Shell membership
A completed engagement
Demonstration data3,184
People engaged
6,128
Individual inputs
1,062
Map comments
738
Plan comments
A project, end to end.
Creosote Valley 2045
A fictional Nevada area plan carried through the whole practice: the documents, the maps, and the participation record behind them.
Illustrative work, not a client assignment.
Document production · Mapping and exhibits · Engagement design · Research and analysis
Creosote Valley · Planning Area
Existing Conditions
Illustrative pattern, not a survey.
Grow
Guide development to locations that already have streets, water and services.
Connect
Link neighborhoods, schools, parks and trails for people moving through the valley.
Protect
Keep habitat, washes and wildlife movement areas connected and intact.
Explore
Expand access to parks, trails, open space and the desert around them.
Thrive
Build a resilient community where growth and natural systems support each other.
What we do.
What a project comes away with, and the range of the practice that produces it.
What you receive
- Planning documents
- Technical reports
- Maps
- Research graphics
- Engagement experiences
- Data visualizations
- Illustrations and renderings
- Public presentations
Studio // Operating model
All tools in one.
Every discipline, one team
Planning, engagement, graphics, GIS, research, reporting and production, hired together.
Shell, run for you
We deliver on Shell, so an engagement also carries end-to-end admin support: setup, team access, publishing and reporting.
Quoted per project
A written fee for the scope, not a per-seat subscription. The public never pays to take part.
Requesting a quote.
Studio is professional work, not a subscription. Tell us about the project and a quotation comes back in writing.
How a fee is reached
Scope first
We agree what is produced, in what form and by when.
One written fee
An itemized quotation for the project, with its own terms.
Nothing starts unconfirmed
No work begins until scope and fee are accepted.