Objective transformations Since we can’t get rid of urban hyperobjects, we have to find a way to work our realities with them. Urban hybrids are a way of transforming our current urban scenarios into systems that respond to urban hyperobjects. Monitoring, regulating, and controlling the flows of urban hyperobjects can be called sustainability. In this case, the project presented responds to our current situation through sustainable practices The proposed urban model consists of a civic initiative that integrates public space with an environmental consciousness through plastic recycling. The street functions as a framed open and public space that extends towards the interior of the buildings, densifying public activity and creating a new type of collaboration between the public and private programs of the building. As a response to the ecological crisis, lack of urban life and civic engagement within the site, the project transforms the traditional street into a vehicle-free public plaza, activating urban life for the community and making it an attraction for visitors. The basement space for some of the buildings is reprogramed as a public workshop which is used for a plastic recycling process within the block. The integrated plastic recycling system consists of a small-scale industrial process which opens the opportunity of community engagement in which both locals and visitors can place their used plastic and transform it. The scale of the objects ranges from plastic filament to molded objects such as tiles. The street is made up of a tile pattern combined through different iterations along the ground surface, and in some cases, it is extruded in multiple heights creating a dynamic and playful urban scenario. The integration of street, façade, and building evolve into social practices that densify urban life within the block. The proposal brings new forms of civic interaction and community participation throughout the multiple stages of the system’s ecology while creating an active and sustainable environment.
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