73 | Futurity
Architectural Hybridization Ujjwal Dawar
United Nations has projected that the current world population of 7.3 Billion People is expected to increase and reach 9.7 Billion by the year 2050. This draft increase in population will lead to more consumption of resources creating immense land pressure in cities. In the past few years many innovations such as vertical cities, floating cities, etc have been implemented to reduce this land pressure. Hybrid infrastructure could be another key innovation to control the expansion of cities and reduce this land pressure, the idea, is not to design more but rather to re-think the current process of infrastructure design to make it more efficient and sustainable. Introduction Today, a hybrid building is understood as a building in
This graduation project focused on identifying this
which certain contrasting functions come together and
language of architecture and then hybridizing it to
create a habitable block. Although these programmes
evolve the built environment. In this case this process of
function completely independent to each other, similar
hybridization has been demonstrated though a case of a
to adding all the ingredients of a dish together in a pot
Cultural Centre in form of a Hy-bridge (bridge + building)
but not cooking it. These buildings should rather be
commonly known as an ‘Inhabitable Bridge’ in the east of
Biologically, hybrids are formed by altering or hybridizing the DNA sequence of two organisms which leads to genetic variation, is it possible to apply this process in
Biologically, hybrids are formed by altering or
architecture and experiment if the architectural specie
hybridizing the DNA sequence of two organisms
will survive or not. Although to start this process of
which leads to genetic variation, is it possible to
hybridization it becomes necessary to first understand
apply this process in architecture and experiment if
the ‘DNA’ of an architectural specie, also understood as
the architectural specie will survive or not.
the language of architecture.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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referred to as ‘mixed-use’ buildings than a hybrid block.
