Design Goals
  1. Community-Oriented Design
    • Plaza and dining areas, outdoor seating, lighting, and other amenities for community use
    • Reclaim Fairmont Ave as a publicly accessible bicycle and pedestrian paseo
    • Family-oriented, pet-friendly areas and an engaging landscape design
  1. New Park & Open Spaces
    • Revitalize Gateway Park at the corner
    • New park and open space with connected retail, restaurant, and amenity space
  1. Beautifully Designed
    • Downtown-style urban character and residential-facing units with townhouse/rowhouse-style character with stoops, individual entries, canopies, and porches
    • Enhanced pedestrian experience and non-vehicular circulation
    • Ground floor frontage of visible, accessible entrances and pathways from the street and human-scaled design elements
    • Sensitive height and setback transitions to adjacent structures and the residential neighborhoods
    • Upper stories of buildings stepped back to reduce visual bulk
  1. Improved Environment & Parking
    • Eliminate traffic on Fairmont Ave
    • Reduce noise and pollution and increase the safety of the area for residents
    • Underground parking
    • On-site trash receptacles are loaded and unloaded on-site and not within public rights-of-way
Conceptual Drawings & Preliminary Floor Plans
Click Image To Enlarge
  • This is a 3D visualization from El Camino Real
Click Image To Enlarge
  • This is a rendering looking from Castro St, looking toward the direction of the corner at El Camino Real (on the right). 
Click Image To Enlarge
  • Rendering of the paseo currently where Fairmont Street exists.
Click Image To Enlarge
  • Another rendering of the view looking through the paseo
Click Image To Enlarge
  • The street is Hope Street facing El Camino
  • New facade and colors are not illustrated here
Click Image To Enlarge
  • Site Plan (not finalized)
Click Image To Enlarge
Unit Floor Plans
  • Studio (979 SF)
  • 2-Bedroom (1,884 SF)
Click Image To Enlarge
Unit Floor Plans
  • 1-Bedroom (890 SF)
  • 2-Bedroom (2,069 SF)
Click Image To Enlarge
Unit Floor Plan
  • 3-Bedroom (3,378 SF)
  • 1-Bedroom (1,384 SF)
Click Image To Enlarge
Unit Floor Plans
  • 2-Bedroom (2,048 SF)
  • 2-bedroom (1,696 SF)
Click Image To Enlarge
  • This shadow study sheet represents the impacts of the building's shadows cast at the indicated time of day and year.

Castro Commons

[email protected]+1 (650) 584-3110
LOCATIONS
Development & Current HQ: 843 Castro St, Mountain View CA
DISCLAIMER:
Disclaimer: This design is preliminary and is subject to change. Conceptual rendering are indicative. This project been submitted to the City of Mountain View. Fairmont Avenue is the property of the City of Mountain View.