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2020 Design Charrette
The Santa Barbara Chapter of the American Institute of Architects conducted the 2020 Design Charrette to Reinvigorate, Reinvent, Reimagine, and Repurpose our Downtown with housing, energy, and life. The Charrette consists of design teams of volunteer architects, landscape architects, planners, engineers, and other experts who applied their talent and expertise to envision a future Downtown Santa Barbara.
According to Architect Detlev Peikert, AIA “This Charrette could be a vision to inform the community for the next 100 years.”
Thank you to the broader community for participating in the survey. These ideas helped inform the designers as they worked to solve problems and illustrate new ideas and visions for Santa Barbara now and into the future.
The design teams focused on ideas for housing via adaptive reuse of existing buildings, new structures for “opportunity” sites, and development of our public open spaces. A few teams reviewed the entire promenade area in terms of flow, entry points, and supporting local businesses.
2020 Design Charrette Booklet
The AIASB is proud to present the 2020 Design Charrette Booklet! This 300+ page booklet houses all the fantastic work of our 16 design teams. Flip through the digital booklet or download it onto your device.
2020 Design Charrette Poster Exhibit Booklet
This booklet of 21 pages is a presentation of the different categories of the charrette, such as Gateways and Intersections; Paseos, Courtyards and Plazas; Housing Solutions etc.
Charrette Poster Display now in Storefronts on State Street
Highlights of the 2020 State Street Charrette are now posted in the windows of a vacant storefront on State Street – the former Forever 21 store, at 901 State St
Thank you to Trico for donating the printing of the posters!
2020 Design Charrette Presentation
October 21, 6.00 – 7.30 pm
Click here to see the 2020 Design Charrette Presentation to the Public. See the results of your survey put into plans for downtown State Street. Each of the teams who covered one or blocks of State Street will be presented their new proposed vision.
Lessons Learned In The 2020 Community Design Charrette For Downtown Santa Barbara
January 21, 2021 4.00 – 6.00 pm
AIA Santa Barbara Chapter Presentation to Santa Barbara City Council – the results of Design Charrette 2020
Architects Turn an Eye to Future in Envisioning a Redesigned Downtown Santa Barbara
Public Input
Awards
George Gerth Volunteer of the Year Award
AIA Santa Barbara Design Charette received the George Gerth Volunteer of the Year Award for its work mobilizing the minds and creativity of more than 200 design professionals and 16 teams to reimagine and re-envision the downtown area.
Cass Ensberg, FAIA, accepted the award on behalf of the charrette team and AIASB. See her acceptance speech here.
Downtown Santa Barbara announces community awards:
Design Charrette Receives Golden Leaf Award
Santa Barbara Beautiful has honored the American Institute of Architects Santa Barbara Chapter with one of this year’s “Golden Leaf Awards”. These special awards recognize organizations and individuals “who have given joy to our city during these difficult times of Covid-19.” Our local AIA chapter was recognized for its “SB 2020 Design Charrette – Downtown State Street,” a project to “Reinvigorate, Reinvent, Reimagine, and Repurpose our Downtown with housing, energy, and life.
Read about the charrette at aiasb.com
Named in the award are:
Committee chairs: Cassandra Ensberg, FAIA & LEED AP, Detty Peikhert, AIA, LEED AP BD+C and Ellen Bildsten, AIA, LEED AP
AIASB 2020 President: Matthew Beausoleil
Steering committee: Alex Pujo, AIA; Amy Fitzgerald Tripp, Assoc. AIA; Paul Rupp, AIA; Dennis Thompson, FAIA; John Campanella; Karen Feeney, Hon. AIASB; Nina Johnson; Tony Tomasello; Jasper Jacobs, P.E.; John Margolis, AIA; Brian Cearnal, AIA; Ashley Taylor
Media
Promenade, plazas, paseos & parks *New
Santa Barbara’s downtown promenade expected to remain into 2021
Public Invited to View Window Exhibit on Community Vision for Downtown
Voice Magazine- Envisioning a Green and Enlivened Paseo Del Arte Downtown Pg. 12-13
KEYT- New designs for downtown Santa Barbara on display for the public to see
Independent- The State Street of Tomorrow
Noozhawk- Local Architects Share Their Visions for Reimagined Downtown Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara’s State Street Closure an Overwhelming Hit Among Locals, Survey Finds
Taking the Pulse of State Street’s pedestrian Promenade
Residents Respond In Droves to Reimagining Downtown Santa Barbara Pg. 19
State Street Promenade Survey Results Released
A new vision for Santa Barbara
How High Should We Build? Pg. 5
What’s the Future for State Street’s Promenade?
Local Architects Invite Community Input on State Street Promenade
Architects Launch Downtown Design Initiative Pg. 2
What Will Happen to Office Buildings?
Keeping the Lights Shining on State Street
Santa Barbara Architects Say Pandemic Serves as Opportunity to Reinvent Downtown
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