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2023 EP Design Competition
May 30, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
Three Sisters Gardens Community Center
DATES & DEADLINES
April 7 Registration Opens
April 18 Information Session + Community Engagement
12 – 1 pm, 317 5th St, West Sacramento
May 30, 5 pm Submissions Deadline
Week of June 12 Jury Session
June 19 Award Recipients Notified
For full details and to enter: click here.
For a PDF version of the brief: click here.
The American Institute of Architects, Central Valley Chapter, in partnership with a nonprofit organization, Three Sisters Gardens, announces a competition to successfully envision designs for a community center in West Sacramento.
ABOUT THREE SISTERS GARDENS
Three Sisters Gardens is an indigenous-led nonprofit organization bringing community members together to grow food and lives. It was founded in 2018 and currently operates four urban farms. Their mission is to teach members of the community how to grow, harvest and distribute organic vegetables.
Three Sisters Gardens is based on traditional native teachings of protecting Mother Earth and respecting ALL living things. Their main goal is to give back to the community by inspiring and empowering youth through gardening. Like the Three Sisters legend of companionship planting, Three Sisters Gardens believes that communities can begin to heal and thrive when all components, the youth, adults, and elders are working together as one.
COMPETITION OVERVIEW / PROGRAM
The site for the project is located at the northeast corner of C Street and 5th Street in West Sacramento and is approximately 12,000 SF, currently holding an unoccupied metal and flat roof building. The site’s immediate context is a mix of one to two story residential and commercial properties. It is also directly across from one of the four Three Sisters Gardens urban farms – located to the south of the project site.
The primary goal of this competition is to develop design ideas for a Community Center that will establish a neighborhood presence for Three Sisters Gardens, allow them to expand on their urban farming programs, connect with the local community, and offer opportunities for training and education related to gardening. They envision a development that enjoys a relationship with their urban farms in the area. The farm and community center hope to play a part in addressing the West Sacramento food desert. For full details and to enter: click here.