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The Village City
Santa Monica, CA
Program
160 units, 189,000 sq. ft
Client
The related Companies of CA, City of Santa Monica, Community Corporation of Santa Monica
Completion
Projected 2013
Awards
2008 Westside Urban Forum Award
Koning Eizenberg was one of three f irms collaborating on the masterplan and design of The Village in Santa Monica’s Civic Center. The project includes market rate and affordable housing, artists’ housing, retail, infrastructure, and public open space. Planning strategies addressed traffic, density, height, and open space to converge into an innovative solution revolving around a “living street.” The linear conf iguration organizes housing t ypes into distinct neighborhoods, taking advantage of the irregular sloped site. The Village transforms the original Civic Center concept into a more neighborly and sustainably responsive masterplan, bridging between the grain of the adjacent residential neighborhood and the larger scale of the Civic Center buildings. The project is slated for a LEED Silver rating.