Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management

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img_0022.150.jpg Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
Designer Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP (ZGF), Los Angeles, California, USA
Location Santa Barbara, California, USA
Date 2002
Building Type academic with classroom, lab, office building
Climate mild temperate
Context college campus
Street Address On the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara
Notes
At Great Buildings http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/UCSB_Bren_School.html

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Building Details
Client University of California at Santa Barbara
Cost $26 million
Area 84,672 square feet
Stories 4
Site 2.9 acre
Awards  
  • U.S. Green Building Council LEED Level: Platinum

Finalist, Livable Building Awards 2007



"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 operal windows and high-tech senors 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."—Great Buildings



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LEED Scoresheet, United States Green Building Council, viewed on 2009.1002 http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=1697

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LEED Platinum at UCSB at ArchitectureWeek

Bren School Case Study at GreatBuildings.com

Bren School official web site

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