The Orchard Park design marries the rigor of the Prescient system with the playful, organic nature of a field of trees. The 19-acre site at UC Davis is a community of 11 graduate and family residential buildings and two amenity buildings. TCA designed the buildings to incorporate Prescient, a panelized light-gauge metal framing structural system. With an on-site assembly process, Prescient enabled the entire project to be built faster and with fewer costly on-site modifications. The TCA team embraced the efficiency of only 3 building types and oriented the buildings to introduce variety as they are nestled among the Heritage trees sprinkled throughout the site. Building rotation and variation of façade patterns helps reduce the tendency toward repetition naturally occurring from the Prescient system. Unique architectural details on the building corners help create memorable gateways and key intersections. Two smaller-scaled community buildings, appropriately, The Treehouse and The Greenhouse, then take the organic theme one step further, making the collegiate community feel more like a resort camp in the woods. These unique and playful buildings activate the site’s open space and blur the line between indoor and outdoor, providing a strong connection to nature.