PT2: Hybrid Buildings

Combining Work with the Home.

House for Pottery Festival - Office for Environment Architecture, Japan.

"Hybrid buildings are structures capable of housing diverse programs, of fostering the interaction of different urban uses and of combining private and public activity. They promote housing, public space and facilities, to a great extent to solve three crucial issues in our society: shortage and high cost of land, monofunctionally of new developments, and the deterioration of urban centres."

- Steven Holl, 2014

What is the difference between a hybrid building, and a mixed-use building?

A mixed-use building may have multiple functions in one volume. For example a student apartment building with a convenience store at street level. With areas rarely interacting with one another, addition or subtraction of one or more components would have little impact.

A hybrid building combines multiple uses in a way which inform and provide for one another within a system. For example a residential Cohousing experiment, where a communal garden provides social space for residents as well as food which is shared and cooked together in a communal kitchen and an architectural firm at street level, run by the creators of the building and residents themselves.

Precdents:

House For Pottery Festival, Office for Environment Architecture - Japan

Capitol Hill Cohousing, Schemata Workshop - US *From PT1

Hybridised City, Vertical Building, Nicholas Bozanno - US