a+t research group selected 14 case studies of collective housing for the book Density is Home. Today, we begin a series of 6 posts about that publication. The first post features the Monte Hacho Housing project, by MGM, in Ceuta, Spain.

The function of living is the most difficult to insert into hybrid programmes. Throughout this double issue which brings to a close the Hybrids series, a+t graphically analyses 20 recent projects and supports the inclusion of housing in mixed developments.

The volume also includes a historical analysis of 12 classic examples where the differences between hybrid buildings and social condensers are clearly outlined.

The building anticipates through its geometry and circulation strategy its subsequent integration into a dense inner city context aiming to formulate an alternative prototype to the usual out-oftown retail box development...

The park project comes as movement, as a philosophical concept… From Heraclitus to Deleuze… As a transformation, as an evolutionary process… It looks to represent the concepts that make up today’s fluctuating situations...

The architectural blog Archidose has published a review of the a+t magazine issue entitled Strategy Space.

a+t number 37, entitled Strategy and Tactics in Public Space, has been reviewed on the architecture blog ArchDaily.