Developing regenerative places and the businesses that sustain them.
We blend technical process, systems thinking, and stylistic elegance to reimagine how places sustain themselves — bringing clarity and craft to construction, planning, and live events.
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Practice I
Environmental design consulting on public space, landscape, and the places people live and work, through biophilic design, placemaking, and open-space planning.
Grounded in Stephen Kellert's research on biophilic design, so the landscape, the human experience, and the material detail work as one system.
Practice II
Professional consulting on construction, live events, and growing business ventures, through team building, systems strategy, and KPI design.
Data-based reporting and program scheduling, paired with Integrated Project Delivery, so strategy and execution move together.
We practice the clarity of technical process and the synergy of stylistic elegance to bring a fresh approach to planning.
II.An ongoing methodology exploring how the built environment can restore its own capacity to regenerate.
III.Notes from the studio — new work, new thinking, and what's next for Stormi ACDC.
About
A multidisciplinary urban planning studio providing professional consulting on construction, live events, and growing business ventures.
Our integrated practice focuses on healthy, performance-driven design, data-based reporting structures, program scheduling, and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD).
The work starts from a simple observation: natural systems regulate themselves — they distribute stress, recycle waste, and restore balance. We have the unique opportunity to study the properties and behaviors of these mechanisms, and use an urban design perspective to apply this natural intelligence in our built environment.
We look at placemaking through a human lens, inspired by Stephen Kellert's foundational research on biophilic design, to bring that regenerative capacity into the places we shape — considered together at the scale of the landscape, the human experience, and the material detail.
Our mission is to provide a leading portfolio of urban technologies that value open space, welcoming diversity, bountiful sustainability, and historic continuity in the city and coastal fabric.
How we got started
Angela Chinn was born and raised in California, where her love of cities and coastal places took root at age 14. After 15 years working across hospitality, construction, logistics, and live events, she built Stormi Applied Computation Design Co. — devoted to making healthy, happy, productive environments the standard for how we build.
Practice I
We provide environmental design consulting on public space, landscape, and the places people live and work, helping communities restore how their places function through biophilic design, placemaking, and open-space planning.
Our approach builds on Stephen Kellert's foundational research on biophilic design, so the landscape, the human experience, and the material detail move together toward a regenerative whole.
Practice II
We provide professional consulting on construction, live events, and growing business ventures, helping teams sharpen how they work through team building, systems strategy, and KPI design.
Our integrated approach pairs data-based reporting and program scheduling with Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), so strategy and execution move together toward a shared vision.
Research
Our natural environment has the energy to regenerate, evolve, and adapt. We can observe the patterns in nature that have these characteristics, and design them into our built environment.
Studio I
We observe the energy nature uses to restore balance and bring new life to eroded ground, and apply that same intelligence to the built environment.
We start with the site conditions most visible in everyday practice, then move into the deeper ecological and sensory factors conventional design tends to overlook.
Each one maps back to the natural mechanisms and biophilic strategies that can bring it into balance.
Studio II
We apply the same systems-thinking approach to organizations, working with leadership to advance the vision.
We map how the business works to optimize sustainability, stability, and profitability, and clarify the metrics that matter most.
Then we build on existing internal capacity, from team structure to succession planning.
| Thinking in Systems: A PrimerDonella H. Meadows · 2008Foundational | A primer on systems theory, arguing that understanding behavior over time reveals more than isolated events ever could. |
| Good to GreatJim Collins · 2001Foundational | Distills five years of research into what separates companies that make the leap from good to great from those that don't. |
| The Fifth DisciplinePeter M. Senge · 1990Foundational | Names systems thinking as the discipline that ties together personal mastery, shared vision, mental models, and team learning. |
| Age of EntanglementNeri Oxman · 2016 | Traces design's shifting relationship to science, from the Enlightenment's neat disciplinary boundaries to today's entangled fields. |
| So Good They Can't Ignore YouCal Newport · 2012 | Argues that loving your work comes from accumulating rare, valuable skills — career capital — built through deliberate practice. |
| Running LeanAsh Maurya · 2010 | A practitioner's playbook for startups, built on the idea that practice trumps theory when testing a new business model. |
| MasteryRobert Greene · 2012 | Makes the case that deep, undistracted focus — not talent alone — is what wires true skill into the brain. |
| Storytelling That Moves PeopleHarvard Business Review · 2003 | On why persuasion through story, not data alone, is what moves people to act in business. |
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| 26 Oct 2026New | Updated website and upcoming email newsletter. |
| 25 Apr 2019 | Reinventing our concept. |
| 1 Mar 2018 | Now hosted by GitHub. |
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