Hybrid versus Social Condenser

Aurora Fernández Per, Essay, High Density, Politics and economics, Urban Paradigms

Architecture, Capitalism, Circulation, Cities, Collective housing, Design-based research, Domesticity, Economy, Essay, Exploring Housing, Factory, High-rise, Hybrid neighborhoods, Ideology, Land uses, Megacities & High Density, Mixed use, Optimized living, Programmatic coexistences, Public vs. Private, Residential, Social housing, Technology, Urban management, Urban research

Excerpt from "This is Hybrid", published by a+t architecture publishers.

In the search for models capable of economizing on resources, Hybrid Buildings, especially those with residential uses, are specimens of opportunity which have the gene of mixed use development embedded deep into their gene code, a gene which is vital in order to adapt to the trends of the times. Nevertheless, this mixed condition brings them to be mistakenly compared to another avant-garde model, a model which despite at first seeming to be its predecessor, the truth is quite the opposite. We are of course referring to the Social Condenser.