Donald Bren School of Environmental Sciences and Management / Bren Hall - Goleta, California
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N 34° 24.780 W 119° 50.510
11S E 238800 N 3811612
LEED platinum building on the UCSB campus designed to make smooth transition between indoors and outdoors
Waymark Code: WM5Y18
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/27/2009
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"The Donald Bren School at the University of California, Santa Barbara takes advantage of a beautiful setting near the Pacific Ocean to become a green building that embraces its environment not only for efficiency, but for experience. With a striking open courtyard, it provides ample opportunity for social interaction that makes the transition between indoors and outdoors much smoother and ephemeral than most buildings.
The Bren School also utilizes daylighting to harness natural illumination in lieu of artificial lights while allowing views that further enhance the building¹s connection to the landscape. And with operable windows and high-tech sensors connected to adjacent heating units, the Bren School smartly takes advantage of Santa Barbara¹s famously moderate climate. It¹s a campus building as charming and memorable as the city to which it belongs.
Building Bren Hall with sustainable materials and methods is estimated to have added only 2% to the building cost, which will easily be offset over time by energy savings.
"To ensure efficient use of energy, the building was designed to harvest natural light, heating, and cooling. Facing the ocean, the office wing has no air conditioning and instead relies on flow-through ventilation with operable windows and transoms. Daylight harvesting is coupled with a lighting plan that incorporates energy-efficient fixtures and bulbs along with controls for motion and ambient light."
— Donald Bren School"
(quoted from greatbuildings.com, with spelling errors corrected)
City, State or City, Country: Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Year Built: 1999 - 2002
Architect: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca
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