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Integrate With Community
Solution
Buildings should be made to feel part of the community that they belong to. While people seek to have protective and private spaces within the buildings they occupy, it is also important for those buildings to at least in part reach out to their community.
Supporting Patterns
For a building to integrate well with its community, it should not attempt to upstage its neighbors by flaunting wealth or being pretentious.
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See Also
Particular attention should be played to entrances to buildings. Not only are they the first experience you have of the building, but out of all the transitions from one space to another, this is the most extreme, most dramatic change.
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