TCA Architects

Harvest in Tracy

tcaeditor - Jan 15, 2024

Harvest in Tracy brings 304 two-story apartments across 86 buildings with a variety of styles, including, flat, carriage, and townhome. The site design is loaded with amenities including a resort-style pool with cabanas, top-of-the-line fitness center, bocce and basketball courts, a designer clubhouse, conference room and business center, community garden plots and edible community garden, and an on-site dog park and spa.

Original design and entitlement by KTGY, with Architect of Record services by TCA.

EL MONTE VETERANS VILLAGE

TCA Architect - Nov 15, 2023

El Monte Veteran’s Village is the San Gabriel Valley’s first supportive housing community focusing exclusively on Veterans. TCA utilized the HighDEF product to reach the ideal density and provide a design program compatible with the client’s goals. The project came with an allocation of vouchers that provided financial assistance for housing costs and support services through the Department of Veterans Affairs. Through a redevelopment-funded City of Industry allocation, Los Angeles County committed over $2 million in gap funding to the project, in addition to the project based vouchers. The project combines an array of sustainable technologies across the board and exceeds California’s Title 24 Energy requirements by over 24%. In addition to the sustainable features of the building, the property includes an edible garden, fruit tree orchards and on on-site composting facility to process yard waste. El Monte Veterans Village is a GreenPoint Rated project and achieved LEED Gold certification.

CRESCENT

tcaeditor - Oct 20, 2023

Crescent is an affordable housing development and is the largest project of its kind in Roseville, CA. The 100% affordable project consists of 356 rental apartments on approximately 19.5 gross acres of vacant land. The project is located on a parcel in the North Central Roseville Specific Plan that was initially intended to be an office park, but was rezoned to provide much needed affordable housing. The community consists of twelve 24-plex and six 12-plex, 3-story type VA residential buildings. There are also two single-story leasing and amenity buildings and a community pool. The design incorporates traditional and agrarian themes to blend with the single family homes of the neighborhood.

ANTON PORTOLA

TCA Architect - Sep 10, 2023

Anton Portola is an affordable community consisting of 12 three-story apartment buildings with a total of 256 apartment units in Irvine, CA. Additional buildings on the site include a leasing and recreation building, central laundry and maintenance building, carports, and trash enclosures. The site plan for Anton Portola is designed around two large open greens that are centered within the community. The first is used as the main recreational area with the communities’ pool. The second houses a large play area and a shared laundry facility. The residential homes all work around these two areas, enhancing views and helping to keep eyes on the neighborhood. The homes are two and three stories in height and are based on an early California theme. Massing steps down at the buildings edges to help break down scale. Garages are tucked into the building and hidden from view along drive courts.

VIO

TCA Architect - Sep 07, 2023

VIO is a mixed-use project within the Village Oaks master plan of the Hitachi General Development Plan, located in San Jose, California. The HighDEF project consists of 234 residential apartment units and approximately 5,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space, distributed in two 4-story Type V buildings. Leasing center, recreation, and fitness facilities are featured in a separate 3-story building, adjacent to a pool courtyard. The project incorporates sustainability measures to achieve a LEED Silver rating. In accordance with the City’s vision of a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood, the architecture breaks down the perceived mass of the buildings by creating an overall rhythm to enhance the human scale, as activated by stoop entries and material articulation at the ground plane. Although the rhythm creates a certain regularity and order, the varied palettes of color in the architecture serve to create differentiation within the system, to essentially enhance the individual scale. Creative stacking solutions were required to enhance the semblance of more verticality in reference the traditional rowhouse typology as requested by the city.

SACRAMENTO BEE

tcaeditor - Sep 01, 2023

The Sacramento Bee redevelopment brings townhomes and single-family homes to neighboring sites in the heart of Sacramento. The North site consists of 60 three-story townhomes with tuck under garages, both conventional and tandem, on the West portion of the site. Additionally, there are 61 two- and three-story single-family homes with conventional side-by-side garages on the East portion of the site. The South site consists of 48 three-story townhomes with tuck under garages. Adjacent to the 23rd Street Station of the Gold Line, this transit-oriented development is a stop away from the R Street Market and dinning. The project offers a walkable, for-sale residential community that contributes to the creation of a thriving urban village around the R Street Corridor. The three-story buildings line the urban street edge and feature ground floor patios that activate the street. The ground floor is clad in brick, reinterpreted in a more modern façade, which both anchors the architecture and provides a common material that was used in the original Sacramento Bee building of the site. TCA served as design architect through entitlement.

ARIVA

TCA Architect - Aug 20, 2023

Ariva Apartments is Phase 2 and 3, located within the master-planned community that occupies the former site of General Dynamics-Convair’s missile plant. Ariva offers one- and two-bedroom units that feature quartz countertops, washers and dryers, private terraces, and views of the two-acre Centrum Park. The project is a four story Type V construction over two levels of Type I parking garage and brings 253 units to the San Diego Spectrum Center. The two buildings are located east of the yet-to-be-built Ariva Way and south of Lightwave Avenue in the city of San Diego.

REATA

TCA Architect - Aug 15, 2023

Located in Laguna Hills, Reata is designed in a “Spanish Revival” style, taking influence from Southern California’s historical architecture. The project is the centerpiece of the city’s Urban Village Specific Plan and fundamental to the design is the connection of pedestrian access to the neighboring Oakbrook Village Shopping Center. The project includes a 10,000 square-foot space called the Village Green; aiming to provide a vibrant, pedestrian-oriented atmosphere. The retail awnings and storefronts along the ground level are designed to help reduce the scale of the building along the pedestrian frontages, while allowing for views into public areas of the building. The tower elements anchor key corners and cantilevered balconies provide relief and texture, working to further break down the scale of the massing. The project has 289 dwelling units consisting of 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom units; each featuring private balconies and decks looking outward over the densely landscaped site or over one of the four courtyards.

888 SAN MATEO

TCA Architect - Jul 15, 2023

The project is located on an unusually narrow 3.08 acre site located at the southeast corner of Peninsula Ave and North San Mateo Drive. The site includes 2 residential buildings, totaling 4 stories in height and provides 155 studio, one and two bedroom units ranging from 590 – 1,070 square feet above a subterranean garage. The project achieved LEED Platinum certification and includes green features such as a self-service bike repair facility, on-site transportation outreach coordinator, informational kiosk and on-site sales of BART Clipper cards. A landscaped plaza with public art is located at the corner of North San Mateo and the property is within walking distance to the Burlingame Caltrain Station as well as bus route 292 which includes transportation to San Francisco. Parking was subterranean plus surface level.

LINCOLN PLACE

TCA Architect - Jun 15, 2023

Lincoln Place is currently the largest apartment community in the United States to be entirely HUD financed. The community is a historical rehabilitation of 696 existing apartment units (40 buildings) plus 99 new apartments (18 buildings) within the 35-acre apartment community. Initially developed as a result of the housing shortage of World War II, the original project was built in 1951 and was at the time the largest apartment project west of the Rockies. It was designed by African-American architect Ralph A. Vaughn, a onetime senior set designer at MGM and son of prominent Chicago architect, Roscoe Vaughn, with a “Garden City Movement” planning philosophy in mind. TCA helped restore Lincoln Place to its original luster using many of the original materials during the rehab. The new buildings, leasing office and 6,500 square foot recreation facility were all designed as a nod to the original mid-century style and create a cohesive community in the city of Venice.