Sevens transforms this underutilized ten-acre site into a living neighborhood, structured equally by landscape and movement. The luxury rental complex is designed as a network of parks, paths and courtyards that reorders the built environment as an engaging and open space for its residents. Within a framework that includes 56 percent open space, the project delivers 716 new units, including 20 percent dedicated to affordable housing and a significant portion reserved for local teachers and school district employees.
The three five-story buildings are carefully arranged to frame open spaces, modulate scale and respond to the adjacent neighborhoods. Heights step up and down in a strategic response to the site’s context, with lower-scaled forms placed along sensitive edges and taller elements located internally, allowing density to be absorbed through site planning rather than expressed as visual bulk. While unified by shared materials and color palettes, the three buildings each have their own architectural expression. Together, they form a collection of buildings in harmony with each other and their surroundings.
Over the development process, our design team participated in meetings with the city council, environmental planning commission and the school district — arriving at a collaborative design that prioritizes landscape and public open space. By organizing density around pedestrian and bicycle networks, the project demonstrates how thoughtful planning and long-term commitments to the public realm can make complex urban infill possible.
