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Hybrid buildings are urban artefacts which are characterized by the mix of uses. They share a hazardous life, full of obstacles and setbacks. Those who manage to be built and endure are true survivors of a rare and vigorous species that grows in places of opportunity, making its way through the speculative weeds.
In this Catalogue on the Art of Mixing Uses, a+t research group rescues 50 HYBRID BUILDINGS, designed from the end of the 19th century to the present. Each of them is dr.
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Project published in: DENSITY IS HOME. Photos by a+t research group. October, 2018
Urban-Think Tank. Fábrica de Cultura: BAQ. Barranquilla (Colombia), 2013-2017
The hybrid building
Our interest in this type of project is based on land consumption. The disperse city is the underlying reason for a significant part of the damage being done to the planet. Not only does it increase emissions as a result of individualized transport and consumption but it also undermines social cohesion and opportunities for social interaction, even in an environment like the present where seemingly everything takes place in the cloud.
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Park Hill by Jack Lynn, Ivor Smith, Lewis Womersley. Sheffield. United Kingdom, 1959-1961
Drawing by a+t research group. Published in the book Why Density?
This work of collective housing by the architects S333 is a project with multi-layers based on the program and the urban landscape.
CiBoGa is a hybrid comprising three uses: residential, retail and parking. There are four types of units: row housing, apartment with vertical circulation core access, apartment with access through shared communal space and high-rise apartment with access through glazed galleries.
Retail act.
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The linear city rather than the intense city was the object of this ambitious project
for social housing, heir to Le Corbusier planning. The desire to solve urban growth
with one single self-sufficient action led to a paralysing programme. The complex
was never finished and many of the facilities were never built. Its isolation from the
real city, the contrast with the scale of the surrounding fabric and the situation of
illegality which meant the work was abandoned before completion all.
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