An annual gathering for architects, designers, and specification professionals practicing across Northwest Florida — from Tallahassee to Pensacola. Two sessions on residential design, a small group of practicing architects, and an afternoon held inside Walk Your Plans, a working full-scale plan environment where plans are projected at 1:1 throughout the space. One afternoon, once a year, the people doing the work in this market — in one room.
30A Design Forum is a season-marking gathering for the architects, designers, and specification professionals of Northwest Florida. The intention is simple: a working venue, two sessions on residential design, and a cocktail reception where the people who build this corridor can be in one room without an agenda.
This is Volume 01 — the inaugural edition. Co-hosted by Walk Your Plans and Residential Elevators. The format is built to be repeated each June with new sponsor partners, new specification topics, and the same room of practicing architects who actually do the work in this market.
Integrating private elevators into custom residences from schematic design forward — what to set early, what to leave flexible, and where the field always pushes back.
A joint session presented by TruStile, Builders FirstSource, and Residential Elevators. The areas that need to be considered when ordering interior doors for residential applications — and how those decisions change when the project includes an elevator. Sizing, jamb depth, door prep, and trim, walked through end-to-end from spec to install.
For most architects, this becomes the more valuable part of the afternoon. A small group of architects, builders, and designers — many working on active projects along 30A — continuing the conversation in the same room, surrounded by the projected, full-scale floor plans the venue is built to host.
The 30A Design Forum is hosted at the only studio in Northwest Florida purpose-built for full-scale architectural plan walkthroughs. Drawings are projected at 1:1 onto the studio floor and elevation wall — architects, builders and their clients walk the plan at actual scale before a single piece of dirt moves.
For the forum, the studio doubles as the venue: classes in the morning, reception in the same space, with plans projected throughout. There is no other room in the Panhandle that does this.
The kinds of issues that are difficult to evaluate on paper — and frustrating to resolve later.
The Panhandle's only full-scale architectural projection studio. Built to let designers, builders, and homeowners walk a floor plan at 1:1 before construction begins.
walkyourplansemeraldcoast.com ↗America's only fully in-house residential elevator company — sales, design, manufacture, installation, and service under one roof. Family-owned, Tallahassee-based, 30+ years in the field.
residentialelevators.com ↗
Partnering with Residential Elevators and TruStile to talk through the considerations that drive interior door specification in residential applications — sizing, jamb depth, door prep, and trim — and the coordination required when those doors share a project with an elevator.
bldr.com ↗The Emerald Coast's premier luxury residential builder — beachfront classics to coastal estates, every project a one-of-one.
jeterconstructionllc.com ↗Architectural doors built for high-end residential specification. Sponsoring Session 02 of the program.
trustile.com ↗Florida Panhandle & 30A luxury real estate. The brokerage moving the homes the architects in this room are designing.
naumanngroup.com ↗RSVPs close May 29, 2026. Confirmation, agenda, and final logistics sent within 48 hours.
This is a private event for the architects, designers, and specification professionals of the Florida Panhandle. Limit five (5) attendees per firm. Seats confirmed in the order RSVPs are received.
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