We are a full-service architecture and interior design firm located in Santa Barbara, led by licensed Architect Kevin Moore, a graduate of the Southern California Institute of Architecture with over 18 years of working experience in the Santa Barbara area. We specialize in creating warm, modern, and contemporary design and Architecture in the area. Kevin Moore has been appointed by the City Council to the City of Santa Barbara Architectural Board of Review (ABR), which reviews commercial and larger-scale residential projects within the city limits.
Located near Haley and Milpas Streets, this mixed-use AUD development creates three new rental residences above a ground-floor commercial space in a walkable, bike-friendly Santa Barbara neighborhood.
The owner came to KMA with an aging mixed-use property and a desire to give it new life. Rather than treating the apartments, retail spaces, and underused rear parking area as separate challenges, we saw an opportunity to rethink the property as a whole.
Transformation of a 2,400 s.f. Funk Zone warehouse into a tasting room for Topa Topa Brewing. The design preserves the building’s industrial character while introducing an indoor-outdoor bar, warm materials, and visual connections to the surrounding spaces.
A well known historic building with a lot of character. The previous owner had not maintained well or been able to lease out the various awkwardly sized spaces. We worked with the new owners to embark upon a historic renovation and repositioning to create a new restaurant space downstairs and convert the second floor into contemporary office spaces.
A tight hillside property above Santa Barbara with complex zoning, slope, and view corridor considerations—but also extraordinary views stretching from the mountains to the ocean and Channel Islands. The clients envisioned a modest home where the distinction between indoors and outdoors would nearly disappear.
Adaptive reuse of a large retail State St. building in Santa Barbara including an 8,000 s.f. interior and exterior remodel/transformation of an existing warehouse space into a new multi-tenant hospitality destination. Tenants include Modern Times Brewery, Cubaneo and Shaker Mill Cocktail Bar.
Interior remodel of a 1,000 s.f. space on State Street in Santa Barbara into Satellite, an intimate wine bar and restaurant. The design features a warm material palette, copper detailing, a compact kitchen, and wide folding doors that open directly onto State Street, connecting the interior to the energy of downtown.
A 1,200 s.f. addition and full remodel to as existing Santa Barbara home, interior remodel including living room, kitchen and master bedroom and bath. Addition of guest room, entertainment room and home office.
Re-envisioning of a collection of underutilized downtown Santa Barbara properties into a cohesive residential community organized around a pedestrian paseo. The design introduces much-needed housing while drawing from Santa Barbara’s architectural character through intimate passageways, courtyards, scale, and materials.
Adaptive reuse of a 4,000 s.f. former restaurant space on lower State Street into a multi-tenant food and drink destination. The remodel brings together Corazon Cocina and Captain Fatty’s Brewery, opening the once-fragmented building to a vibrant outdoor dining area at the edge of Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone.