17TH AND J-STREET
Sacramento, California
The 17th and J-Street mixed-use apartment project is in the Midtown area of the Sacramento Central Business District. The five-story, 74 unit building occupies a 0.5 acre corner site along the J-Street corridor with 3,700 square feet of corner retail space. J-Street is a major east-west connector that leads from Downtown directly into the Midtown area. Immediately off J-Street, the neighborhoods become very residential in nature.
A metaphor for the design was a “new” architecture “hatching” from the traditional shell of mixed-use, multi-family design. Oriel windows, rectilinear forms and a retail base create the “Traditional” frontage of the design along J-Street and reflect a modernized version of this building typology. The residential portion of the building that extends up 17th Street “breaks free” from this shell. It departs from the traditional approach in form, material, and proportion, and connects in a new way to the adjacent residential neighborhoods.
