777 West Middlefield consists of 716 total units distributed in three individual buildings, of which 572 units are market-rate located in 2 buildings (A & B). The third building (C) has 144 moderate and low income units reserved for Mountain View Whisman School District employees and teachers. The affordable teacher housing shares amenities with the market rate units in addition to its own 3,300 SF of ground floor amenities that activate the street frontage. TCA took over the previously entitled project and proceeded with production drawings. Due to the client’s programming changes and unresolved coordination between the previous architect’s plans and elevations, some design changes were presented to the Planning department for approval. Architectural languages along the street edges articulate both vertical and horizontal elements encouraged by the City of Mountain View’s development guidelines. By incorporating top, middle, and base design elements, transitional architectural gestures, and stepping the massing down to 3 and 4-stories, the buildings along the streets relate to the neighborhood context in scale and architecture.