Commercial Building ~ Form

When considering the building form for the commercial building I think it is really important in trying to keep the visual relationship between the residential and the commercial one. However there needs to be distinct differences which also allow the public to differentiate between the two.

I have shown this development down on the Gold Coast previously but what I wanted to show was they both have the same function (residential apartments) but their actual building form is just tweaked to the very slightest to have a difference between the two. In this case the height is the most obvious to point out.

Predominantly, the difference between the conventional residential and commercial office buildings is the amount of glass facades used in commercial buildings and the visibility of balconies on residential buildings. Whilst I intend on including both of those in my designs I want to manipulate the building form of the commercial building to make it similar, but at the same time very different.

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