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a+t 43 WORKFORCE A Better Place to Work (31)
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a+t 45 SOLID Design Techniques (18)
a+t 46 SOLID Organization or Design? (10)
a+t 47 SOLID Interior Matters (2)
a+t 48 Generators, Linkers, Mixers & Storytellers (10)
a+t 49 Dwelling Mixers (6)
a+t 50 Learning Systems (6)
a+t 51. Activators (5)
a+t 52 Paradises (6)
a+t 53 IS THIS RURAL? ARCHITECTURE MARKERS IN THE COUNTRYSIDE (1)
a+t 54Culturing the Country, Cultivating the City (1)
a+t 55. The Intermediate (1)
a+t 56 The Ideterminacy of the Floor Plan (1)
a+t 57 THE EXPERIENCE OF EXTERIORITY (1)
a+t 58 THE CHALLENGE OF PRIVACY IN COLLECTIVE HOUSING (1)
a+t 59 The interaction within the Living Space (1)
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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
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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