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Section H: Building Type Character and Quality Live/Work Residential Live/Work residential buildings will add an interesting building type that provides housing and work space for artists, designers, and other sole proprietors. Located potentially in Wharf's Edge, these buildings will activate the street and create a more lively and interesting character. They provide a transitional building type that can be less traditional in style and fit better with streets that may also include commercial uses. The key design components include: Live/Work buildings must create a strong relationship between the ground floor and the street by providing work spaces and entrances with ample visual interest. Individual live/work units should provide some unique elements and variation to differentiate each from its neighbors and add architectural diversity on the street. Main entrances should be large, recessed, or covered, and made welcoming by emphasizing details and lighting. Incorporate the most expressive materials and decorative detailing near the entry, including special ground plane surface treatments. Each live/work unit should also include some variation on the second floor elevations. Balconies and terraces will provide distinctness and spatial definition within rhythm of unit windows. Upper floors should be located and sized to maximize views. Building tops on live/work units should be stepped and terraced. Flat roof parapets or cornices should terminate with a cap or reveal and perhaps a change of material,pattern, color, or form. Detailing live/work buildings should convey a high level of craftsmanship to merge a residential scale and quality with a commercial working building. Details can be less decorative and traditional, but should still help to provide some unique and varied character between units. Materials — Live/work building exteriors should use materials that are less decorative and more utilitarian than other residential housing types. Masonry, brick, ground face block, metal or well finished concrete may all be appropriate choices. Marine durable wood could also be used to convey a warmer quality. Metal roofing with an appropriate color may be used. Entry ways can be varied but should have ground plane surfaces done in stone, concrete pavers, or integral colored concrete. 2014 Waterfront Place Central Supplemental Design Guidelines - 113 -